a small Mahommedan town of Hindustan, in the province of Malabar, situated on the banks of a river which is navigable in the rainy season thirty-two miles for canoes. Near this town Tipppo's forces were decisively defeated by Colonel Hartley's army. It is twenty-three miles south by east from Calicut. Long. 76. E. Lat. 11. 2. N.