PSEUDO´STOMOS(Ψευδόστομος ποταμὸς, Ptol. 7.1. §§ 8, 33, 83, 85, 86), a stream of western India, which Ptolemy describes as flowing from Mt. Bettigo near Coimbatoreto the sea near Muziris ( Mangalor). It cannot with certainty be identified with any existing river, especially as along that coast, between lat. 10° and 15°, there are a great number of streams which, flowing but a short distance from mountains which approach the sea are little better than torrents.
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