BOORHANPOOR. 
History, with all her volumes vast, 
Hath but one page. 
This city stands on the north-west side of the 
river Tupti, and commands the most extensive and 
fruitful plains in the province of Kandeish, of which 
it is the ancient capital. It is one of the largest, and 
perhaps the best-built, of the cities in the Dekkan, 
and enjoys a foremost importance in wealth, as a 
commercial and manufacturing city. Moreover its 
consequence is not confined to mere matters of fact ; 
for it possesses very abundant interest for the tra- 
veller, as a treasury of antiquarian remains, and as 
the scene of many stirring and tragical events, con- 
nected with the history of the Mogul power in 
these provinces. The place was founded in a. d. 
1416, by Nazur Khan, of the Farooki dynasty, 
and was called Boorhanpoor, in honour of the great 
and learned — afterwards sainted — Sheik Boorhan- 
ud-Deen, (chief of the faithful). The circumstances 
which gave rise to the building of the city are ripe 
with romantic incident, and give additional interest 
to its subsequent history. They are thus told in 
