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a: rich booty, being at this time the depot of great part of 

 the treaftire of the young fovereign Adil, who was foon after 

 taken, and the name of Beder changed to Zifferabad, or the city 

 of victory. 



In Lat. 17° 20', the Godavery receives into its channel the The Bain 



GONGA. 



great river Baijt Gonga, which flows from different Ihort courfed 

 flreams from the foot of the God\joanah chain, and runs above 

 four hundred miles nearly fouth, and moftly through unknown 

 land, till it is loft in the former ninety miles from the fea. 



On the Kanhar, which falls into the fouthern fide of the 

 Godai:ery., in Lat. 21% about feventy miles from the conflux. 

 Hands Nagpour, the capital of Berar, or the dominions of Moo- nagpour. 

 dajee BovnJIab, chief of the eaftern Mahrattas ; his country is 

 that of Berar and Orixa. The firfl appears in the map almoft Bejiar, or 



,,, 1 r/T. 1. • J/- r Eastern Mah- 



a blank, perhaps a roreit nearly impervious, and or courle un- rattas. 

 known. Nagpour is fmall, and almoft defencelefs, the chieftain's 

 treafure being depofited in a ftrong hold called Gawile, about a 

 hundred and twenty miles from it. This pra6lice is common 

 to many other Lidian princes. The land around the capital 

 xifes into fmall hills, and is w-ell cultivated. 



1 SHALL not omit that about fixty miles to the N. W, of this Deogire, 

 capital is another, D^o^/r^, the antient capital of Godzvajtab, and Godwanah. 

 the refidence of the Rajah Rmndeo. It was attacked by Alia, 

 Ibn oiFerofe II. in 1293, Ramd&o fought with, but was defeated 

 bv him before one of the 2;ates of the citv : and foon after his 

 retreat into the citadel was obliged to fubmit to the viclor, and 

 obtained peace, but on moft exorbitant terms. RaJiideo's ^on, 

 with a ftrong army, attempted to releafe. his father from the 



condition, 



