Orthura
Ὄρθουρα
Orthura (Ὄρθουρα, Ptol. 7.1.91, 8.27.18), a town on the eastern side of the peninsula of Hindostán, described by Ptolemy as the Palace of Sornax. It was in the district of the Soretes. and has been identified, conjecturally, by Forbiger with the present Utatur or Utacour.
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.