Podoca
Ποδώκη
Podoca (Ποδώκη or Πουδώκη, Ptol 7.1.14; Ποδούκη, Peripl. Mar. Erythr. 100.60), a place near the coast of Malabar, not far from the Cávery river. According to Bohlen (Ind. vol. i. p. 26), the name is a corruption of Podukeri (the new town), (Comp. also Ritter, vol. v. p. 516.) It is not unlikely that the name has been preserved in the present Pondickerry (written in the Tamil language Puduchchery). Ptolemy mentions another place of the same name in the northern part of the island of Taprobane (7.4.10).
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.