GOKAK, a town of British India, in the Belgaum district of Bombay, 8 m. from a station on the Madras and Southern Mah ratta railway. Pop. (I 93I) 11,866. It contains old temples with in scriptions. About 4 m. N.W. at the Gokak Falls, the Ghatprabha rushes over a precipice 170 f t. high. Close by, the water has been impounded for a large irrigation canal, and as motive power for a big cotton-mill. The irrigation works are extending.