GAUKARNA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of
1 Edinburgh Review, vol. xlv. p. 15.
North Canara. It consists of five hundred houses, interspersed with cocoa-nut trees; and has a temple dedicated to Mahadeva. Salt is made in the neighbourhood; but it is of bad quality, and is scarcely saleable. Long. 74. 25. E. Lat. 14. 32. N.