A seaport in the country of Bharu (J.iv.137).
Mention is made of merchants going by sea from there to Suvannabhúmi (e.g., J.iii.188). Bharukaccha was the residence of Vaddhamátá Therí (ThigA.171) and Malitavambha Thera (ThagA.i.211).
In the Mahá-niddesa (MNid.i.155; see also Mil.331), Bharukaccha is mentioned in a list of places to which men went for trade. Vijaya lived there for three months before sailing for Ceylon. Dpv.ix.26; the Dvy. (586) says the city was founded by Bhiru, one of the three people who escaped from the kingdom of Sikhandi, the parricide ruler of Sauvíra, when this was destroyed by a heavy fall of sand, following on the murder of Rudráyana, king of Roruka. Bharukaccha is, according to this account, a corruption of Bhírukaccha (Marsh of Bhiru). But Brahmanized tradition ascribes its foundation to the sage Bhrgu. It is identical with Barygaza of Ptolemy and the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea.
Bharukaccha is the modern Broach in Kathiawar. The people of Bharukaccha are called Bharukacchaká. E.g., DhSA.305.
2. Bharukaccha. A park in Ceylon laid out by Parakkamabáhu I. Cv.lxxix.11.