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Volume 11 · 61 words · 1842 Edition

a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejaapoor. It is now greatly reduced, being a poor town, but still exhibits the remains of the magnificence which it formerly possessed when it was under the Mahommedan government. The last of the Mogul sovereigns died in 1643. It is fifty-five miles south-south-west from Merritch. Long. 74. 47. E. Lat. 16. 13. N.