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TAGARA

Volume 17 · 116 words · 1810 Edition

city of ancient India, the metropolis of a large district called Ariaca, which comprehended the greatest part of the Subah of Aurungabad, and the southern part of Concan. Arrian says, that it was situated about ten days' journey to the eastward of Pulistanah; which, according to the rate of travelling in that country with loaded carts, might be about 100 British miles. This fixes its situation at Deoghir, a place of Tagara's great antiquity, and famous through all India on account of the pagodas of Eloufa. It is now called Douletabad.

Tagetes, Marygold, a genus of plants belonging to the class Syngenesia; and in the natural system ranging under the 49th order, Compositae. See Botany Index.