Hippocura
Ἱππόκουροα
Hippocura (Ἱππόκουροα, Ptol. 7.1.6, 8.26.15), a town of some importance in India intra Gangem, in the district called Ariaca. It was situated on or near the Nanaguna, and appears from another passage of Ptolemy to have been the seat of the palace of a king, whom he calls Baleocarus (7.1.83). It has been conjectured by Forbiger that it is the same as the modern Hydrabad, and, with less probability by Ritter, that it is represented by Bangalore (v. p. 487).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.