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460, notes). The old name occurs also, though only once in 

 he Ma'asir-i-' Alamgiri as y } £ ^ (Paidgaon) (Bibl. Ind. Text, 



I 



p. 409, 1. 5). 



The new name Bahadurgarh occurs so many as sixteen 

 times in the Ma'asir, the earliest reference belonging to the 

 vear 1095 a.h. (p. 240). The same name is also found in Khafi 

 Khan, p. 383 (1101 a.h.), p. 415 (1104 a.h.), and p. 509 

 (1113 a.h). 



But where was this Bahadurgadh or Paidgaon or Pairgaon 

 or Bairgaon ? In the first place, we learn from the Ma,asir 

 (p. 322) that it was in the neighbourhood of Akloj or Asa'ad- 

 nagar, which is itself fifty-five miles N.-W. of Sholapur. Next 

 Khafi Khan informs us that a woman was carried by a flood 

 from Bahadurgadh to Aurangzeb's camp at Islampuri or Brah- 

 mapuri on the Bhima, sixteen miles S.-E. of Pandharpur 

 (Imperial Gazetteer, ed. 1908, vol. IX, p. 10), in only five or six 

 watches. (Khafi Khan, Text, II, p. 452). The author of the 

 Ma,asir describes Aurangzeb's route from Khelna or Vishalgadh 

 to Bahadurgadh as lying through Malfcapur, Nabishahdurg (i.e. 

 Parnala), Bargaon, the river Krishna and Asa'adnagar (pp. 463- 

 468). It will be found that the Pedgaon in the Ahmadnagar 

 district, which is on the north bank of the Bhima and eight miles 

 south of Shrigonda (18°37' N. and 74°42' E.) satisfies all these 

 conditions. 1 In the Ahmadnagar volume of the Bombay Gazet- 

 teer we read : " About 1680, Pedgaon was one of the chief stores 

 and a frontier post of the Moghal army, and the ruined fortifi- 

 cations which from a distance give an imposing appearance to 

 the town were built by the Deccan Viceroy Khan Jahan Bahadur 

 who camped here during the monsoon of 1672, in pursuit of 

 Shivaji. Another of Khan Jahan's works is a fairly preserved 

 channel or conduit for bringing water from the Bhima. The 

 water was raised from the Bhima by an elephant Mot and a 

 Persian wheel. The Mot and a tower for the Persian wheel are 

 till fairly preserved. Khan Jahan gave Pedgaon the name of 

 Bahadurgadh, which it has not retained. In 1673, the English 

 traveller Fryer notices Pedgaon on the Bhima, three days* 

 journey fron Junnar, where the Moghals had a large host of 

 40,000 horse under Bahadur Khan. (Fryer, East India and 

 Persia, pp. 139, 141)." Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. XVII, pp. 732- 



733. 



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S. H. HODIVALA. 



Junagadh . 



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Shrigonda or Champargonda is 32 miles south of Ahmadnagar city 



(Imp. Gazetteer, XXII, 309). 



2 It need scarcely be added that Tieffenthaler's NandgSon ( ^{f«UJ ) 



i9 due to a misreading of Paidgaon, ^t 4>.u, as ** would be written in 



Persian. There is a Bahadurgarh in Rohtak district, Panjab, which is a 

 place of some pretensions, but there is good authority for believing that 



