Dandagula/Dantapura/Paloura

fort · 30 BC – 2099 AD

The name "Dandagula" (Pliny) has long been identified with a "Dantapura" mentioned in Buddhist texts and "Paloura" (Ptolemy) has long been identified as coincident. Law 1976 (whence BAtlas) places them at the former fortified settlement of Dantapura, "on the southern bank of the river Vamśadharā, three miles from Chicacole Road Station". Dayalan 2019 passes over Law's suggestion in silence and follows Gerini 1909 in identifying Ptolemy's Paloura with modern Palur.

Coordinates

18.35924, 83.91769

Also known as

Dandagula, Dantapura (en), Dantapura (en), Dantapuram (en), Dantapuram (en), Paloura, oppidum Dandaguda (la), oppidum Dandaguda (la)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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