Mega Stoma

natural · 30 BC – 300 AD · location approximate

Ptolemy enumerates the ancient mouths (stomata) of the Ganges river, from west to east. He lists "Mega Stoma" as the second of these. Due to significant natural and constructed changes in the hydrology of the Ganges within and since antiquity, modern scholars cannot securely identify a particular channel in the Ganges delta today, but the Barrington Atlas does connect the ancient Oxymatis (modern Ichamati) river with the Mega stoma.

Coordinates
22.83827, 88.85903
Dating
attested

Sources

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