60. Among the marts and anchorages along this shore to which merchants from Limurikê and the north resort, the most conspicuous are +Kamara+ and +Podoukê+ and +Sôpatma+, which occur in the order in which we have named them. In these marts are found those native vessels for coasting voyages which trade as far as Limurikê, and another kind called _sangara_, mode by fastening together large vessels formed each of a single timber, and also others called _kolandiophônta_, which are of great bulk and employed for voyages to +Khrusê+ and the +Ganges+. These marts import all the commodities which reach Limurikê for commercial purposes, absorbing likewise nearly every species of goods brought from Egypt, and most descriptions of all the goods exported from Limurikê and disposed of on this coast _of India_. (60) We now reach the great promontory called in the _Periplûs_ +Komar+ and +Komarei+, Cape Kumârî. “It has derived its name,” says Caldwell, “from the Sans. _Kumârî_, a virgin, one of the names of the goddess Durgâ, the presiding divinity of the place, but the shape which this word has taken is, especially in _komar_, distinctively Tamilian.” In ordinary Tamil _Kumârî_ becomes _Kumări_; and in the vulgar dialect of the people residing in the neighbourhood of the Cape a virgin is neither Kumârî nor Kumări but Kŭmăr pronounced Kŏmar. It is remarkable that this vulgar corruption of the Sanskrit is identical with the name given to the place by the author of the _Periplûs_.... The monthly bathing in honor of the goddess Durgâ is still continued at Cape Comorin, but is not practised to the same extent as in ancient times.... Through the continued encroachments of the sea, the harbour the Greek mariners found at Cape Comorin and the fort (if φρουριον is the correct reading for βριάριον of the MS.) have completely disappeared; but a fresh water well remains in the centre of a rock, a little way out at sea. Regarding +Kolkhoi+, the next place mentioned after Komari, the same authority as we have seen places it (_Ind. Ant._ vol. VI. p. 80) near Tuticorin. It is mentioned by Ptolemy and in the _Peutinger Tables_, where it is called ‘Colcis Indorum’. The Gulf of Manaar was called by the Greeks the Colchic Gulf. The Tami[l:] name of the place Kolkei is almost identical with the Greek. “The place,” according to Caldwell, “is now about three miles inland, but there are abundant traces of its having once stood on the coast, and I have found the tradition that it was once the seat of the pearl fishery, still surviving amongst its inhabitants.” After the sea had retired from Κόλχοι ... a new emporium arose on the coast. This was +Kâyal+, the Cael of Marco Polo. Kâyal in turn became in time too far from the sea ... and Tuticorin (+Tûttrukuḍi+) was raised instead by the Portuguese from the position of a fishing village to that of the most important port on the southern Coromandel coast. The identification of Kolkoi with Kolkei is one