MODU´RA
MODU´RA (
Μόδουρα,
Ptol. 7.1.89.)
There are two places of this name mentioned in the accounts of ancient India: one described by Ptolemy (
l.c.) as
βασίλειον Πανδίονος, the Palace of King Pandion; and the other as
Μόδουρα ἡ τῶν Θεῶν, the Sacred Modoura (7.1.50).
The former of these towns was in the southern part of
Hindostân, and is most probably the present ruined city,
Madura; the second was in the land of the Caspeiraei in the NW. part of India, either on the frontier or in the
Panjáb. Its exact position cannot now be determined.
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