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PLACES
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ASHTAMI
Astami (Roha taluka, 18° 25' N, 73°05' E; RS. Karjat, 59 m.)
across the creek from Roha, is included within Roha-Astami municipal limits. It has two ponds. Several well-to-do Beni Israel families live in Astami. The old road to Rayagad ran through Astami, Panore, Nizampur, Gherosi, and Pacad. John Oxenden the English agent who was present at the coronation ceremony of Sivaji in 1674 and who has left a graphic account of the ceremony as well as of the country around, had followed this same route to Rayagad. A century later (1771) Forbes mentions it (Uston) as a considerable village some distance from the banks of the Ceul river [Forbes' Oriental Memoirs, I, 211.].
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