Chapter COMPRADORE to CONCAN of C by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

embraces also North Canara (south of Goa). In medieval writings we find frequently, by a common Asiatic fashion of coupling names, Kokan- or Konkan-Tana; Tana having been a chief place and port of Konkan.

c. 70 A.D.—The Cocondae of Pliny are perhaps the Konkanas.

404.—“In the south are Ceylon (Lankâ) … Konkan …” &c.—Brhat Sanhita, in J.R.A.S., N.S. v. 83.

c. 1300.—“Beyond Guzerat are Konkan and Tána; beyond them the country of Malíbár.”—Rashiduddín, in Elliot, i. 68.

c. 1335.—“When he heard of the Sultan’s death he fled to a Kafir prince called Burabra, who lived in the inaccessible mountains between Daulatabad and Kukan-Tana.”— Ibn Batuta, iii. 335.

c. 1350.—In the Portulano Mediceo in the Laurentian Library we have ‘Cocintana,’ and in the Catalan Map of 1375 ‘Cocintaya.’

1553.—“And as from the Ghauts (Gate) to the Sea, on the west of the Decan, all that strip is called Concan, so also from the Ghauts to the Sea, on the West of Canara (leaving out those forty and six leagues just spoken of, which are also parts of this same Canara), that strip which extends to Cape Comorin … is called Malabar. …”— Barros, I. ix. 1.

[1563.—“Cuncam.” See quotation under GHAUT.]

1726.—“The kingdom of this Prince is commonly called Visiapoer, after its capital, … but it is properly called Cunkan.”— Valentijn, iv. (Suratte), 243; [also see under DECCAN].

c. 1732.—“Goa, in the Adel Sháhi Kokan.” —Khafi Khan, in Elliot, vii. 211.

1804.—“I have received your letter of the 28th, upon the subject of the landing of 3 French officers in the Konkan; and I have taken measures to have them arrested.” —Wellington, iii. 33.

1813.—“… Concan or Cokun …”— Forbes, Or. Mem. i. 189; [2nd ed. i. 102].

1819.—Mr. W. Erskine, in his Account of Elephanta, writes Kokan.—Tr. Lit. Soc. Bomb., i. 249.