Persakra
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Sep 26, 2025 02:36 PM
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History
An ancient settlement of India, mentioned by Ptolemy, that Vogel 1952 identifies with the Sanskrit toponym Paricakra in the Shatapatha Brahmana. BAtlDir tentatively locates it in the vicinity of a modern "Sakra" (a common placename). This modern town, based on the BAtlas coordinates, lies to the northeast of modern Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh. It does not seem to appear in open, online gazetteers.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59991
27.9943754386, 78.4614773743
- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: BAtlas Point Location (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 9310 meters.
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- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 D4 Persakra
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Sankra? Skt.: Paricakra
M.U. Erdosy, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Persakra: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59991> [accessed: 15 December 2025]
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