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reigned only five years, when he was killed by the 
bursting of a shell, at the siege of Callinjer, a strong 
hill-fort in the Bundelcund district, about eight hun- 
dred and thirty-five miles from the city of Allahabad. 
This emperor took the name of Shere from his 
having dispatched a large lion with a single blow of 
his sabre ; Shere signifying a lion. 
