A History of the Mahrattas v1.c17.31

v1.c17.31

⁴ [Mazagon, now a municipal ward of Bombay City, has grown up around the original village of the Portuguese and early British epochs, and in its present form is largely the result of extensive reclamation from the sea. The name is possibly a corruption of *Matsyagrāma*, ‘fish-village,’ in allusion to the colony of Kolī fishermen which settled there in early ages; but is more plausibly held to mean ‘the central village’ by analogy with the Marāthī *mazaghar*, ‘the central portion of a house.’ Mazagon is frequently mentioned in Portuguese and early English records. (*B.C.G.*, vols. i, ii, iii.)]