350 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal [N.S., XIV, 
charge of Sanjar Khan; but on the King’s return to the capital, 
the neighbouring Rajas rose in rebellion and appear to have 
recovered it. (bid., 452-456.) 
About sixty years afterwards, Gandikota was again cap- 
tured by the famous Gulkanda minister Mir Jumla, and readers 
of Tavernier will remember the jeweller’s description of his 
interviews with the general soon after the latter’s reduction of 
the fortress (September, 1652). Travels, ed. Ball, I, 260-1, 
284-9 
The author of the Ma‘asiru-l-Umara says of Mir Jumla: 
Unit x % * SUS allan st ft, si dy esto 9 evel i 
BabyS gif do Cwlal uyaieT tpi! eS node 5 Unlell omy 
Winns 9 Obl sla widsy ILS aliSyl 3) eye af) opnoey 
pose ty Slt bed sda 5) Ss es cme} 2S yl ur pie 
# oy9f Grab aged gtpiit GUSTS 31 ( gt OF 
(Bibl. Ind. Text, ITI, 530, 1. 14—531, 1. 2.) 
‘‘ By the sheer force of his valour and no of affaits, 
a tract belonging to Karnatak, containing a dia mine and : 
several strong and impregnable (rt. with 8 ae fork: 4. 
resses like BAIS NE oe (or haere ig ae Sidhout, (vi 
tak 3 
ghat Karnatak. (Ibid., IIL, 517, Il. 4. ff) the 
Similarly, Grant Duff informs us that after the fall of 
Gulkanda Kingdom, Gootee, Gurrumcondah, Gandicolta a : 
Sidhout, which were piskaded in the Haidarabad Carnatie 
were under Golconda, came into the possession of the M 
(Reprint, oe eta te- 
vn to later times, we find the following 3 
ment in ste life of Haidar ‘Ali Khan in the Maasiru-Il-U mara — 
—s S79 8 Sy 9 5m (19g) dhe aS) ys Jl 09 ae 
ap» ces) (ses 9 V_@dw Seals Soee) yialat a (—“ “ay a 
———— Co Trt 
the Imperial Gazetteer also sa It [Gandikota] was ‘oe 
by the Guisaace Sultan and held by Mir das later, it was 
of one of the five Sarkars of the C. tic Balaghat, until it was .e 
by the Pathan Nawab of Cuddapah.” ‘XII, 137. 
