Syrastre
SYRASTRENE (Συραστρηνή, Peripl. M. E. 100.41; Ptol. 7.1.2), a district of ancient India, near and about the mouths of the Indus. There. can be no doubt that it is represented by the modern Saurashtrán, for a long time the seat of a powerful nation. Surashtra means in Sanscrit the beautiful kingdom.
Ptolemy (l.c.) mentions a small village Syrastra, which may have once been its capital. It is probable that the Syrieni of Pliny (6.20. s. 23) were inhabitants of the same district.
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.