Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency ..., Volume 19

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Printed at the Government Central Press, 1885 - Bombay (India : State)
 

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Page 470 - Regularly perform thy prayer at the declension of the sun, at the first darkness of the night, and the prayer of daybreak; for the prayer of daybreak is borne witness unto by the angels.
Page 291 - Panchdyats, the ordinary tribunals of civil justice began to improve, because the supreme power if it did not always examine and uphold their decrees, at least did not interfere to prevent the decisions of the community.
Page 300 - Rao's professions of gratitude for past favours and of entire dependence on its moderation, once more resolved to continue him on his throne, after imposing such terms on him as might secure it from his future perfidy. The principal of these terms was a commutation of the contingent which the...
Page 569 - Aurungzebe, on his arrival before Satara, pitched his own tents on the north side of the fort on the site of the present village of Kurinja. Azim Shah was stationed at a village on the west side, which has since retained the name of Shapoor. Shirzee Khan invested the south side, and Turbeeut Khan occupied the eastern quarter ; chains of posts between the different camps effectually secured the blockade. The fort of Satara occupies the summit of a hill of moderate height, but very steep ; its...
Page 305 - I was more struck with his private sitting-room than anything I saw at Satara. It contains a single table covered with green velvet, at which the descendant of...
Page 501 - ... unbroken when the torrent is swollen by rain, but ordinarily divided by projecting rocks, about one-third of the way down, and scattered below into thin white streaks and spray, which are often circled by rainbows from the oblique rays of the sun.
Page 278 - Rao, arose from Rughoojee's having plundered the province of Allahabad, and not having joined when he was ordered, according to the terms on which he held his lands and title. The Peishwa affirmed that he had no authority for levying contributions...
Page 259 - The imposition of the surdeshmookhee, of course, reduced, in a proportionate degree, the actual collections from a country, the resources of which were already drained to the utmost ; but the nominal revenue continued the same. To have collected even one-fourth of the 'standard assessment would probably, at this period, have 'been impossible; but the...
Page 231 - Bramins and kine, to punish the violators of their temples and their gods, and to resist the enemies of their religion ; that it became him as a Bramin to assist in what was already declared by the deity ; and that here, amongst his cast and countrymen, he should hereafter live in comfort and affluence.
Page 569 - Azim Shah, and conveyed stores to the besieged. The grand attack was directed against the NE angle, which is one of the strongest points, the rock being 42 ft. high, with a bastion on the top of 25 ft. of masonry. Tarbiyat Khan undertook to mine this angle, and at the end of four and a half months had completed two mines.

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