KORYGAUM, a hamlet on the left bank of the Bhima river, midway between Seroor and Poona. It is famous for a successful stand made by a small body of the E.I. Company's troops against the peshwa's forces, which were estimated at 20,000 horse and 8000 foot. Captain Stanton left Seroor on the 31st December 1818 at six in the evening, and the following morning, as be approached the Bhima, observing the peshwa's army in the plain on the right bank, he threw himself into Korygaum, which he reached as a body of the peshwa's infantry, chiefly Arabs, entered and took possession of its other side. At noon the British force began attempts to dislodge the enemy, but was soon compelled to restrict its efforts to defending itself against the assaults of the Arab infantry. They were met by repeated discharges of British artillery, but before evening Lieutenant Chisholm of tho Artillery had been killed, many artillerymen killed or disabled, Lieu tenants Pattinson, Conellan, and Swanton, and Assistant-Surgeon Wingate wounded ; and Captain Stanton, Lieutenant Imes, and Assistant-Surgeon Wyllie, of the officers, alone remained effective.
On the following day, 2d January 1819, the neshwa moved off along the Poona road, and in the evening Captain Stanton marched to Seroor, which he entered on the following morning with drums beating and colours flying.-11. 11. WiLton.
KOS or Coss, a measure of length. The kos of India varies greatly in length. One kos is about 13,000 feet, or 2 miles 5 furlongs 153 yards. In Mysore, the Sultani kos is about 4 miles. In N. India, the kos-minar pillars are apart 2 miles 4 furlongs and 158 yards. In N. India, the Muhammadana having introduced the itinerary measures of their various native countries, there are a great variety of such measures to which the Hindu term kos is indiscriminately applied. The Muhammadan kos may be taken at 35 to a degree. Kos - minar, milestones of India, in form are solid circular stone obelisks, little larger than the usual milestones of Britain. The kos minar were put up to mark the ancient Moglinl royal road in India, at the distance of every two miles.—Baron Hugel's Travels in Kashmir, p. 93 ; Tr. Hind. ii. p. 9. See Coss.