[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.698 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.698 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.698 - **Language:** English ### [c10.698](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.698) \*\*BACANORE\*\* and \*\*BARCELORE\*\*, nn.pp. Two ports of Canara often coupled together in old narratives, but which have entirely disappeared from modern maps and books of navigation, insomuch that it is not quite easy to indicate their precise position. But it would seem that Bacanore, Malayāl. \*Vakkanūr\*, is the place called in Canarese \*Bārkūr\*, the Barcoor-pettah of some maps, in lat. 13° 28½′. This was the site of a very old and important city, “the capital of the Jain kings of Tulava . . . and subsequently a stronghold of the Vijiyanagar Rajas.”—\*Imp. Gazet.\* \[Also see Stuart, \*Man. S. Canara\*, ii. 264.\] - [Previous: c10.697](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.697) - [Next: c10.699](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.699) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.698](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.698) · Pramāṇa