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•of year 33" [First Ramazan 1100 to 30 Sha^ban 1101 H., Juue 

 20th, 1689 to Juue 7th, 1690] " the victory -bearing standards were 

 •** set in motion from Qasbah Badari, seventeen kos to the north 

 "" of Bijapur, the victorious tents were erected in the vicinity of 

 " Kalkalah in the division of Toragiil [vana^it, Nurgal], which 

 *' is situated to the south of Bijapur, at a distance of twelve 

 "*'A:o5and on the banks of the river Kishna, the said Khan 



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This Kalkalah is evidently identicnl with the Galgali of Sl»eet 

 Ifo. 41 of the Indian Atlas, a,place on the right banlc of the Kishna 

 (or Kisfcna) river, and in the present Bijapur district. It was more 

 than once the site of 'Alamgir's camp, and, on one occasion, he 

 remained there for more than four years — See the Ma^^sir-i- 

 ^AlaTngtrV pp. H35 (arrival in year 33 1,388 (departure for Bijapur 

 forfoui^th time in year 34), 345 (leaves Bijapur for Galgali in year 

 •35), 370 (departure for Bijapur for fifth time in year 39), It was 

 ^t Galgali that the N'eapolitan traveller, Gemelli Careri, paid 

 his visit to the emperor's camp. 



If Kalkalah (Galgali) in the S.-W. comer of the Bijapur 

 district was within the division of Toragal (Nuragal). it 

 follows that the latter place cannot be very distant. Turning 

 to the maps in Vol. XX III (Bijapur) and Vol. XXI (Belgaum) of 

 the ** Bombay Gazetteer," we find on the south-western boundary 

 of the one and the eastern boundary of the other a name 

 *' Toragal," having Mudhol on the north and Ramdurg on the 

 south of it. These are the names of two southern Mahrattah 

 native states, aud an account of tliem will be found in Vol. I, 

 Part IIj of the " Bombay Gazetteer." 



Referring next to Sheet No. 41 of the Indian Atlas, we find 

 in the Ramdurg state a town Toragal on the Malprabha river, 

 an affluent of the Kishna. It is situated in 75°17' long. 

 15°57' lat. (approximately), and about 36 miles as the crow 

 flies to the south of Galgali The dt^Iineation on the maps showB 



it to have been an extensive place, and, apparently, it was at one 

 time fortified. It is a town of consideraUe antiquity, the head 

 of the Toragal " six-thousand " [villages ?] ii» the Kalyanl 

 kingdom of the Western Chalukyas, and is mentioned in 1 187 and 

 1222 A.D. ('' Bo. Gaz." I, Part 2, pp. 4:31, 465, 523). 



I submit that tl.is Toragal is the Mughal mint town we are 

 in search of, and thnt ihv reading of Nurgal should be abandoned 

 for that of Toragal. As the Mughals did not occupy the Bijapur 

 kingdom until IU97 H (1686), in ti.e 30th year of Aurangzeb, none 

 of their coins cnn have been issued at Toragal before that year. 



5L Some Datks rklating to the Mughal Emperoks of India. 



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The following two Lists embody the results of a recent 

 endeavour to ascertain, as accurately as may be, all dates that go 

 to determine the periods, during which coins were issued by the 



