1918.] Numismatic Supplement No. XXX1I. 353 
of the Deccan Subas that the ‘Sircar of Sangamnere in the 
Subah of Aurangabad’ contained, when that statement was 
compiled (about 1790 a.c.), ‘ eleven perganahs,’ viz. :— 
angamnere, Ahmedabad and Patwad, Bélawa, Trimbac, 
Japherabad or Chamber, Dadori, Dhaderphal, Sindher, Nassick 
or Gulshanabad, Varia.t (Waring, History of the Mahrattas, 
pp. 238-9.) 
An equally good, if not better authority, Robert Orme, 
says :— 
* According to our MSS. of the Deccan, Tirmeck is a 
pergunnah or district of Sangamner, which is one of the 
Circars or governments of the Subah or province of Aurangabad. 
ar of Sangamner to Goulchonabad commonly called Nassick, 
the distance twenty coss; below which the bed of the river 
becomes much broader. Numbers of Hindoos resort every yeat 
from the most distant parts, to wash at Tirmeck on the day 
that the sun enters the Scorpion. Every twelfth vear, the 
multitude is much greater and some come on every day in every 
year.” (Historical Fragments of the Mogul Empire, Ed. 1805, 
Pp. 285-6. See also Grant Duff, 49, 51, 52, 284: Mill and 
Wilson, Hist. of British India, viii, 241). It is scarcely necessary 
to say that Orme’s Tirmeck is Trimbak (from Trayambak, * the 
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of Nassick or Gulshanabad ” kept a band of robbers and openly 
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| Sangamner, 19° 34’ N., 74° 13’ E., 49 miles N.W. of Ahmednagar. 
: Chandor (or Chandwad), 20° 20’ N., 74° 15’ E., 40 miles N.E. of Nasik. 
, Akola, Taluka in Ahmadnagar District (Imp. Gaz. V. 189). aka 
Patwad is Patoda north of Vinchir; Dadori is Dindort, a tsa 
in Ahmadngar district ; Bélawa is Yeold in Nasik District Sindher is Sin- 
m the same district. (Imp. Gaz.) 
