[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) › c10.9267 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9267 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9267 - **Language:** English ### [c10.9267](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9267) MASULIPATAM, n.p. This coast town of the Madras Presidency is sometimes vulgarly called Machhli-patan or Machhli-bandar, or simply Bandar (see BUNDER, 2); and its name explained (Hind. \*machhlī\*, ‘fish’) as Fish-town, \[the \*Madras Gloss.\* says from an old tradition of a whale being stranded on the shore.\] The etymology may originally have had such a connection, but there can be no doubt that the name is a trace of the Μαισωλία and Μαισώλου ποταμοῦ ἐκβολαί which we find in Ptolemy’s Tables; and of the Masalia producing muslins, in the Periplus. \[In one of the old Logs the name is transformed into Mesopotamia (J.R. As. Soc., Jan. 1900, p. 158). In a letter of 1605-6 it appears as Mesepatamya (Birdwood, First Letter Book, 73). - [Previous: c10.9266](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9266) - [Next: c10.9268](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9268) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9267](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9267) · Pramāṇa