NAMADUS
NAMADUS (
Νάμαδος, or
Ναμάδης,
Ptol. 7.1. §§ 5, 31, 62, 65), a great river of Western India, which, after rising in the M. Vindius (
Vindhya Mountains), falls into the S. Barygazenus (
Gulf of Cambay), not far from the town of
Beroach. In the
Peripl. M. Erythr. (
Geogr. Graec. vol. i. p. 291, ed. Müller) the river is called Namnadius (
Ναμνάδιος).
The present name is
Nerbudda, which, like the Greek form, is doubtless derived from the Sanscrit
Narmâda, “pleasant.” (Forbes,
Oriental Mem. ii. pp. 8, 104--112.)
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