Combaconum (Kumbhakonam), one of the oldest and most sacred cities of India, in the centre of the fertile Kaveri delta, 193 miles NE. of Madras, with Hindu temples, a government college, &c. Pop. (1881) 50,098; (1891) 54,307.
Combaconum
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 373
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