Ariaca
Ἀριακὴ Σαδινῶν
Ariaca (Ἀριακὴ Σαδινῶν), a considerable district of India intra Gangem, along the W. coast of the peninsula, corresponding apparently to the N. part of the presidency of Bombay. Ptolemy mentions in it two rivers, Goaris (Γοάρις) and Benda (Βήνδα), and several cities, the chief of which seem to have been Hippocura (Ἱππόκουπα) in the S. (Bangalore, or Hydrabad), and Baetana (Βαίτανα, prob. Beder) in the N., besides the poet of Simylla. (Ptol. 7.1. § § 6, 82; Peripl. p. 30.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.