a town of Hindustan, in the province of Aurungabad, pleasantly situated on the left bank of the Morla, on the road from Bombay to Poona. Its population is said to amount to 5000, including 300 Brahmin families. It has the appearance of a commercial, industrious town, containing many good houses and well supplied shops. It is indebted for its prosperity to its being the residence of Chintaman Deo, believed by a great proportion of the Mahatta nation to be an incarnation of their favourite deity Goomputty. The Deo's palace is an enormous pile of building, without the slightest pretensions to elegance, situated near the river. Here is carried on all the disgusting worship of this supposed deity. The floors are spread over with sacred cow-dung, and the spurtments crowded with well-fed Brahmans. (Lord Valentia's Voyages and Travels; Maria Graham's Journal of a Residence in India, &c.)