Note 9 — Chapter III · MUGHAL VICEROYS. a.d. 1573–1758. (continued 2)

Mángrúl (north latitude 21° 8′; east longitude 70° 10′), a seaport on the south coast of Káthiáváḍa, about twenty miles west of Somnáth. This town, which is supposed to be the Monoglossum emporium of Ptolemy (a.d. 150) (see Bird, 115), is spelt Mánglúr by the Muhammadan historians. Barbosa (a.d. 1511–1514), under the name of Surati-mangaler, calls it a ‘very good port where many ships from Malabár touch for horses, wheat, rice, cotton goods, and vegetables.’ In a.d. 1531 the city was taken by the Portuguese general Sylveira with a vast booty and a great number of prisoners (Churchill’s Travels, III. 529). It is incidentally mentioned in the Áin-i-Akbari (a.d. 1590). In a.d. 1638 Mandelslo describes it as famous for its linen cloth, and in a.d. 1700 it is mentioned by Hamilton (New Account, I. 136) as a place of trade. ↑