GO. HIND., SANSK. A cow ; hence Gopa, Gopala, Gorakh, Gopini, Gopi, cowherd, herds. Gobar, cow-dung. Gopi Chandana, cowherd's sandal. Gopi Matti, cowherd's earth.
Goind, manured land, also called Jamai. Gao-Mukhi, Cow's Mouth, the ravine in the Himalaya where the Ganges issues.
Gopura or Gopuram, a gate, a gateway of a town, the ornamental gateway of a Hindu temple.
Galatians is from Gala, milk, Goala, herdsman, in Sanskrit. reavevxot, Galatians or Gauls, and /CAW Celts, allowed to be the same, would be the noma"de or herd races, the pastoral invaders of Europe. See Goala.
GOA, a city, the capital of the Portuguese territory of the same name situated near the mouth of the river Mandavi, in 'lat. lb° 30' N., and long. 73° 57' E. The Goa Portuguese settlement on the western coast of the Peninsula of India, lies between lat. 14° b3' and 15° 48' N., and between long. 73° 43' and 74° 24' E. ; area 1062 square miles, and population 392,234. Goa city has seen three great changes. There was an ancient Hindu city before the invasion of the Mahomedans. Goa was the first capital of the Portuguese, and is still the ecclesiastical metropolis of Roman Catholic India ; a third town, commonly called Panjim, is the present seat of Portuguese administration. Goa territory is regarded as an-integral portion of the Portuguese empire, and, with Daman and Diu, forms, for administrative purposes, one province, subject to a Governor-General, who is appointed directly by the King of Portugal, and holds his office for five years. _ Goa, Daman, and Diu with Mozambique, Macat). —and Tiinor, constitute, for
judicial purposes, bui one district.
To the south of Goa is the Tulu country, and the north and crust are spoken tho Konkani ad Gomantaki (locally called Kudali) dialects of rahrati. According to Mr. 13cames the latter ialect is gradually dying out. The nalive Roman atholic Christians in and near Goa speak a patoia hich contains many Portuguese words mixed Malirati. Portuguese is spoken in the tern iry of Goa in it few families ; outside of this it is corrupted dialect. It is also spoken at .Macao. was a device of the Dutch to circumvent the *man Catholics of Ceylon, by prohibiting the so of the Portuguese lang,tuage, being that of the riests educated and sent from Gott. The attempt us, however, unsuccessful ; and the Portuguese trignage is in almost universal use in n11 tho awns in the maritime provinces of Ceylon, 'Idle Dutch is not only almost extinct, but the escendants of the Dutch have betaken themselves speak the language of Portugal. Up to the resent day in Madras, the people who are descend nts of Portuguese, continue to use that language mong,st themselves, and this is also the case in 'alcutta and 13ombay. The people of mixed *ropean, Portuguese, and Indian descent are enerally very dark. Nearly tall the Goa population re Christians of the Romish branch. The in uisition was suppressed by royal edict A.D. 1775, ut it was re-established in 1779 under certain estrictions, and the burning held privately.— 'rap. Gaz. •