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PLACES OF INTEREST
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EDLABAD
Edlabad (21°00' N, 76°00' E; R. S. Khamkhed, 12 m.; p. 4,363), the headquarters of Edlabad peta, is 11 miles from Varangaon railway station (Bhusaval-Nagpur line). At the time of the Moghal conquest (1600), it was a good town, with a lake always full of water, and much venerated by the Hindus as the place where Raja Jesirat atoned for his crimes. The banks of the lake were highly cultivated. [Gladwin, Ain-i Akbari, II. 53.]
In 1750. it was girt with part of stone walls and strengthened with a very
old fort, [Tieffenthaler, Res. His. et. Geog. Sur. I'Inde, I. 368.] and in 1832 it was a small city of 500 or 600 houses surrounded by a fairly good wall. [Jacquemont, Voyage Dans I'lnde, III. 482.]
In 1880 the place was in half ruins. Just below the town is a local fund dam of
solid masonry, with a wooden sluice gate to keep in store the water of the
stream. Besides some fine remains of old residences and wells,
there are the ruins of its very strong double fort, built it is said by the Moghals, which was seen from miles commanding the country towards Varangaon and Bodvad. The lake is no longer in existence nor the compound walls and fort.
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