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SHAHAPUR
Shahapur (Khamgaon T.; p. 1407): This is a village in Khamgaon tahsil situated 20 miles to the south-east of Khamgaon the tahsil headquarters. The village is said to have been founded by Prince Murad, the son of Emperor Akbar. It was the residence of a famous saint Nipanishah, about whom it was said that he never drank water. The story goes that Murad entertained the saint at a feast, wherein the food burnt the latter's stomach. He, therefore, cursed Murad with the words-, mera duja aur tera tija, which was interpreted to mean: 'I will die tomorrow and you will die the next day '. He also laid a curse on all Muhummedans who took up their residence there. Murad died on the third day with his whole force, and no Muhammedan is said to have been brave enough to live in the village since.
Murad constructed a big palace here and his marriage with the daughter of the Sultan of Khandesh was celebrated in the palace with great pomp [Varhadcha Itihas, Yadav Madhav Kale, p. 129.]. The village contains the ruins of a mahal or palace built by Prince Murad [Ibid, p. 464.]. Prince Murad died here as a result of intemperate drinking. The Akbarnama of Abul Fazl says in this context:
'Alas, that wine should be burdened with suffering, and that its sweet nectar should be a deadly poison. * * On the 17th Urdibihisht, near Dihbari, on the banks of the Purta, twenty kos from Daulatabad, Prince Sultan Murad's fits took a grave character, and on the 22nd he became insensible and died [ History-Mediaeval Period, p. 148,f.n.].'
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