Patalene (region)

Patalene or Patalena is an ancient region of the Indian subcontinent, which according to Ptolemy corresponded to the mouth of the Indus river in modern Pakistan. It is thought that it designated the area of the Indus delta.^[1] A second Minnagara is mentioned in the Periplus, which seems to be upstream of Barigaza:

Ptolemy mentionned Ptalenain this Geographia:

Moreover the region which is next to the western part of India, is called Indoscythia. A part of this region around the (Indus) river mouth is Patalena, above which is Abiria. That which is about the mouth of the Indus and the Canthicolpus bay is called Syrastrena. (...) In the island formed by this river are the cities Pantala, Barbaria. (...) The Larica region of Indoscythia is located eastward from the swamp near the sea, in which on the west of the Namadus river is the interior city of Barygaza emporium. On the east side of the river (...) Ozena-Regia Tiastani (...) Minnagara".

— Ptolemy Geographia, Book Seven, Chapter I

References

1. Alexander's Campaigns in Sind and Baluchistan and the Siege of the Brahmin Town of Harmatelia, Pierre Herman Leonard Eggermont, Peeters Publishers, 1975, p.13