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PLACES
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KOLMANDLE
Kolmandle (Srivardhan Peta; p. 552; RS. Khopoli, 62 m. NE) a village about five miles south-east of Srivardhan, and at the mouth of the Banakot river, is perhaps Ptolemy's (A.D. 150) Mandangad and is Barbosa's (1514) Mandabad, a sea-port of Moors and Gentiles where many ships gathered to buy stuffs, particularly from Malabar coconuts, arecas, a few spices, copper and quick-silver. [Stanley's Barbosa, 71.] At present all the trade has left Kolmandle except a small local trade in fish. Bagmandle,
about two miles from Kolmandle is the main trade centre and it is only when Bagmandle is unsafe that the trading vessels come near Kolmandle.
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