a town in the south of India, being situated on a promontory in the district of Tinevelly, projecting into the Gulf of Manaar, sixty miles north-east from Cape Comorin. Long. 78. 17. E. Lat. 8. 39. N. It is also the name of a town in the Polygar territory, fifty miles west by south from Tanjore. Long. 78. 30. E. Lat. 10. 39. N.