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having revolted, they gave him battle, and he was flain. 

 Tagara became again the metropolis of Ariaca ; at leaft 

 it was fo towards the latter end of the eleventh century, 

 as appears from a grant of foine lands in Concern, made 

 by a Rajah of Tagara : this grant (till exifts, and was 

 communicated to the Afiatick Society by General Car- 

 nac. 



"When the Mujfulmans carried their arms into the 

 Deccau about the year 1293, Tagara, or Deoghir, was 

 flill the relidence of a powerful Rajah, and remained fo 

 till the time of Shah- Jehan, when the diftricl belonging 

 to it became a Subah of the Mogul Empire. Then 

 Tagara was deferted; and Kerkhi, four cofs to the 

 fouth-eaft of it, became the capital. This place is now 

 called Aurungabad. 



Thus was deftroyed the ancient kingdom or Rajajliip 

 of Tagara, after it had exiftcd with little interruption 

 above 2000 years ; that is to fay, as far as we can trace 

 back its antiquity. 



It may appear aftonifhing, that though the Rajah of 

 Tagara was pofTefled of a large trad on the fea-coafl, 

 yet all trade was carried on by land. 



Formerlv it was not fo. On the arrival of the Greeks 

 into the Deccan, goods were brought to Callian, near 

 Bombay, and then fhipped off. However, a Rajah of 

 Larikeh,OY Lar, called Saadanes, according to Arrian, 

 would no longer allow the Greeks to trade either at 

 Callian, or at the harbours belonging to him on that 

 coaft, except Baroach ; and whenever any of them were 

 found at Callian, or in the neighbourhood, they were 

 confined, and lent to Baroach under a ftrong guard. 

 Arnan, beinu, a Greek himielf, has not thought proper 

 to inform us what could induce the Rajah to behave in 

 this manner to the Greeks ; but his filence is a convinc- 



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