the name given to a great part of the west coast of the peninsula of Hindostan on this side of the Ganges, extending from the kingdom of Bagala to Cape Comorin, or from the north extremity of the kingdom of Canara as far as Cape Comorin, and lying between 9° and 14° N. Lat. It is bounded by the mountains of Balagate on the east; by Deccan on the north; and on the west and south is washed by the Indian sea.