Canthi Sinus
Κάνθι κόλπος
Canthi Sinus (Κάνθι κόλπος: Gulf of Cutch), a great gulf, on the W. coast of India intra Gangem, between Larice and the mouths of the Indus. (Ptol. 7.1. § § 2, 55, 94.) The country on its shores was called SYRASTRENE; and Ptolemy mentions the island of Barace (Cutch) as lying in it. The pseudo-Arrian calls it--the Irinus Sinus (Εἰρινόν), and the interior portion, behind the island of Cutch (now known as the Runn), he calls Baraces (Βαράκης), and states that it contains seven islands (they are, in fact, more numerous); and he describes the dangers of its navigation (Peripl. Mar. Erythr. p. 23, Hudson). The Runn is now a mere morass.
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.