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''Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value. ''
=Sopara=

Ancient town in the Bassein taluka of Thana District,
Bombay, situated in 19° 25' N. and 72° 48' E., about 7/2 miles north-
west of Bassein Road and about the same distance south-west of Virar
on the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway. Population
(1901), 486. Sopara is said to have been the capital of the Konkan
from 500 B.C. to A. D. 1300. It is still a rich country town, with a
crowded weekly market. Under the name of Shurparaka, it appears in
the Mahabharata as a very holy place, where the five Pandava brothers
rested on their way to Prabhas. According to Buddhist writers,
Gautama Buddha, in one of his former births, was Bodhisattva of
Sopara. This old Indian fame gives support to the suggestion that
Sopara is Solomon's Ophir, Jain writers make frequent mention of
Sopara. Under the names Soparaka, Soparaya, and Shorparaga, it is
mentioned in old inscriptions, about the first or second century B. c.
The author of the Periplus in the third century a. d. mentions Ouppara
between Broach and Kalyan as a local mart on the coast.

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Pdewan: Created page with "{| class="wikitable" |- |colspan="0"| This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLAR..."

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THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908.
OXFORD, AT THE CLAR..."