Place · Satavahana inland trade centre · India
Tagara / Ter
Also known as Tagara
Tagara (modern Ter, in Osmanabad district of Maharashtra, 150 km east of Pratishṭhāna) was the second-great inland trade entrepôt of the Sātavāhana Dakshiṇāpatha, named in the Periplūs of the Erythraean Sea alongside Pratishṭhāna as the two sources of ‘a great quantity of ordinary cotton cloth, and much muslin, and mallow-coloured cloth’ that reached the Red Sea trade. Ter sits at the inland crossroads where the Dakshiṇāpatha meets the trail south towards Vijayapurī and Amaravati on the Krishna. Excavations have recovered a 2nd-century CE Buddhist stūpa (Trividhā-type), early-historic urban-grid foundations with 7-metre-wide trunk-road alignments, Roman amphora sherds, and the earliest surviving Deccan brick-and-timber monastic cells.
- Function
- Trade & production
- Patron dynasty
- Satavahana
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 18.324, 76.150
Connections (2)
- Trade routePandavleni, Nasik
Ter (ancient Tagara) and the Satavahana cave complex at Pandavleni Nashik sit on the Dakshinapatha trade route — Ter being named by the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (1st century CE) and by Ptolemy as a major trading entrepot between Pratishthana (Paithan) and the Coromandel ports. Pandavleni's 1-century BCE to 3-century CE Satavahana cave inscriptions (including Gautami Balashri's Nashik Prashasti) document the same Satavahana trade economy that supported Ter's urban prosperity.
- Trade routePratishthana / Paithan
Pratishṭhāna and Tagara (Ter) were the two great inland trade entrepôts of the Sātavāhana Dakshiṇāpatha, named in the Periplūs of the Erythraean Sea (c. 60 CE) as sources of cotton cloth, muslin and 'mallow-coloured cloth' sent on from the Deccan interior to the Red Sea trade through Bharuch, Sopara and Kalyan.
Sources
Standard reference; district gazetteer and Wikipedia.
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