42. After Papikê there is another gulf, exposed to the violence of the waves and running up to the north. Near its mouth is an island called +Baiônês+, and at its very head it receives a vast river called the +Mais+. Those bound for +Barugaza+ sail up this gulf (which has a breadth of about 300 stadia), leaving the island on the left till it is scarcely visible in the horizon, when they shape their course east for the mouth of the river that leads to Barugaza. This is called the +Namnadios+. (42) Beyond +Papikê+, we are next informed, there is another gulf running northward into the interior of the country. This is not really another Gulf but only the northern portion of the Gulf of Khambât, which the _Periplûs_ calls the Gulf of Barugaza. It receives a great river, the +Mais+, which is easily identified with the +Mahi+, and contains an island called +Baiônês+ [the modern Peram], which you leave on the left hand as you cross over from Astakapra to Barugaza. We are now conducted to +Barugaza+, the greatest seat of commerce in Western India, situated on a river called in the MS. of the _Periplûs_ the +Lamnaios+, which is no doubt an erroneous reading for +Namados+, or Namnados or Namnadios. This river is the +Narmadâ+. It is called by Ptolemy the Namades. 43. The passage into the gulf of +Barugaza+ is narrow and difficult of access to those approaching it from the sea, for they are carried either to the right or to the left, the left being the better passage of the two. On the right, at the very entrance of the gulf, lies a narrow stripe of shoal, rough and beset with rocks. It is called +Herônê+, and lies opposite the village of +Kammôni+. On the left side right against this is the promontory of +Papikê+, which lies in front of +Astakapra+, where it is difficult to anchor, from the strength of the current and because the cables are cut through by the sharp rocks at the bottom. But even if the passage into the gulf is secured the mouth of the Barugaza river is not easy to hit, since the coast is low and there are no certain marks to be seen until you are close upon them. Neither, if it is discovered, is it easy to enter, from the presence of shoals at the mouth of the river.