Ptolemy (vii, 1, 50) mentions Eragassa as the last but one of eighteen places which he assigns to the Kaspiraioi, whose territory is stated by him to stretch from the country1 of the Pandoouoi (or perhaps from the town Iomusa) towards the east as far as the Ouindion, i.e. the Vindhya. Eragassa is called a metropolis, and must therefore have been a place of some importance. Let us briefly survey the identifications proposed by various scholars. Lassen located Eragassa at “Komulmir”, i.e. Kumalmer, a fort in the Udaipur State of Rajputana. Vivien de Saint-Martin, while suspecting the name to be a “Latin interpolation”, explained it as a corruption of VaranasI, the ancient name of Benares. According to Colonel Yule it would correspond to Giriraja, “Royal Hill”, a name which might indicate Govardhana, near Mathura. Dr. W. W. Tarn1 gives us the choice between Ajmer and Eran in the Sagar district of the Central Provinces. But the ancient name of the lastmentioned place is known from inscriptions to be Airikina or Erakana. Possibly this hst does not exhaust the identifications proposed.