SUPÁRA
n.p. The name of a very ancient port and city of Western India; in Skt. Sūrpāraka , [257] popularly Supāra. It was near Wasāi ( Baçaim of the Portuguese—see (1) Bassein )—which was for many centuries the chief city of the Konkan, where the name still survives as that of a well-to-do town of 1700 inhabitants, the channe… read more
“c. A.D. 80-90.—"Τοπικὰ δὲ ἐμπόρια κατὰ τὸ ἐξῆς κείμενα ἀπὸ Βαρυγάζων, Σούππαρα, καὶ Καλλιένα πόλις ..."—Periplus, § 52, ed. Fabricii.”