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PLACES
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AKSHI
[The Accounts of Forts in this chapter contributed by Mr. E. H. Moscardi, C. S. was for the first edition and a number of additions and corrections in other places were also made for the same by Mr. W. F, Sinclair, C. S., Mr. T. S. Hamilton, C, S. and Mr. H. K. Kennedy. The accounts have been thoroughly revised for. this edition.]
Aksi (Alibag taluka; 18°35'N, 72°50'E; p. 1.743; RS. Bombay,
28 m.) three miles south of Alibag, is one of the chief garden or
bagayat villages in the Alibag taluka. The lands of Aksi,
Naganv, and Revdanda or Ceul form the belt of gardens and palm groves which stretch about seven miles along the coast, south of Alibag. From these gardens large quantities of vegetables, especially of dudhyabhopala (Cucurbita lagenaria), bhendi (Hibiscus esculentus), govarica senga (Dolichos faboeformis), mangoes, lemons, pineapples, plantains, and betel-leaves go to Bombay in the fair season. They are taken to Bombay by traders and bought from them by the Bombay merchants. From the Alibag-Ceul road the Aksi houses are nearly hidden by thick palm and mango groves and luxuriant underwood. On the south side of the Sakhar creek is an old reservoir with a maximum depth of fourteen feet, an area of about three acres, and a supply of water that lasts throughout the year. Aksi has two temples, one of Kalika Devi and the other of Somesvar Mahadev. About twenty-five paces from the Devi's temple, on the road, is an inscribed stone 4'3" long by 1' broad. Above are the sun and moon followed by the ass-curse; then comes a roughly cut writing of nine lines in the
Devanagari character, and, below the writing, a second representation of the sun and the moon. About ten feet to the left of the Somesvar temple is an inscribed stone, 5'5" long by 1.3" broad. Above are the sun and moon followed by fifteen lines of writing in the Devanagari character and below the writing is the asscurse. The stone inscriptions are supposed to belong to the days of Silahara dynasty.
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