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THE ORIENTAL ANNUAL. 
the province of Berar. Its fortifications are extensive, 
but weak, being badly planned and badly built, 
although capable of being made very impracticable 
to an enemy, owing to the natural difficulties of the 
position. The place is of great antiquity, and has 
been the scene of a thousand reverses ; especially in 
its early resistance to the Mohummedan power, 
having been continually subdued, and continually in 
revolt. In a.d. 1294, when governed by Eiloo Raja, 
a tributary of the Hindoo sovereigns of Dowlutabad, 
it made a truly gallant defence, and held out to the 
utmost extremity of endurance against the conquer- 
ing arms of Alla-ud-Deen. Since that time, its 
vicissitudes of fortune have been very extraordinary, 
and too numerous to be recounted. At last it became, 
as it still remains, dependent upon the Nizam of the 
Dekkan. 
The group of buildings forming the subject of the 
annexed engraving are situated on the north side of 
the city, at no great distance from the gate. They 
are built upon the bank of a small stream which has 
its source in the neighbouring mountains, and which, 
after a tortuous course of only a few miles, passes 
through the cantonment and falls into the river Sam- 
pun, upon the south side of the city. Raiman Shah 
Doola, whose tomb is the most conspicuous building 
in the picture, was a fighting priest, half soldier, half 
saint, a most valiant commander and an undoubted 
worker of miracles ; at once, as he himself boasted, 
