Suppara
Σούππαρα
Suppara (Σούππαρα, Peripl. M. E. 100.52, ed. Müll.), a place on the western coast of Hindostan, at no great distance from Barygaza or Beroach. Ptolemy calls it Σουπάρα (7.1.6). In Lassen's map it is placed on the left bank of the Tápati or Managúna, not far to the N. of Surat. This place is also mentioned by Edrisi (i. p. 171), and by Cosmas Indicopleustes under the form of Ὀρραθὰ (p. 337, ed. Montfauc.). It has been suspected, with much reason, by Benfey, that this is the Ophir
of the Bible,--the name in Sanscrit and Hebrew respectively offering some remarkable analogies. (Benfey, art. Indien, in Ersch und Gruber, p. 28.)
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.