NAGADIBA
NAGADIBA (
Ναγάδιβα,
Ptol. 7.4.7: Eth.
Ναγάδιβοι,
Ptol. 7.4.9), a town in the NE. corner of the island of Taprobane or
Ceylon, at no great distance from the capital Anurogrammum. Ptolemy gives the same name to one of a group of islands which, he states, surrounded
Ceylon. (7.4.13).
The name may be a corruption of the Sanscrit
Nagadwípa, which would mean Island of Snakes.
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