ELICHPOOR AND MUNGROQL. 
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who lived at the court of one of the kings of Gawil- 
ghur, and whose charms gained her the privilege of 
a key to the royal treasury. Little, however, is 
known of Moni Joni’s history, or of the dark times 
in which she lived : her name has been conveyed to 
the ears of the present generation by the tomb which 
bears her name, and which possibly owes its long 
preservation to its propinquity to that of the presid- 
ing saint, above-mentioned. 
All the Dekkan provinces, from time immemorial, 
have been notorious for their hordes of rapacious 
and sanguinary banditti ; and more especially the 
mountainous districts east and west of Elichpoor, as 
far as Surat on one side, and Nagpoor on the other. 
The extirpation of them by Sultan Mohummed Shah, 
about the middle of the fourteenth century, is a ter- 
rible instance of despotic justice. It is thus related 
by Ferishta. “ The banditti of the Dekkan, famous 
through all countries for their daring robberies on 
caravans, he determined to root out entirely. For 
this purpose he issued his royal mandate to the go- 
vernors of all the provinces, commanding them that 
they should use their utmost diligence in clearing 
their countries of thieves and plunderers, by putting 
them to death without mercy, and that they should 
send the heads of the victims to the capital, to prove 
their rigid execution of his orders. Such expedi- 
tion was employed in this matter, that, in six or 
seven months, there remained not a sign of these 
