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MANGAD
Mangad (T. Manganv), is a small fort on the Dhanoi spur on the borders of the villages of Chach and Masidvadi, about eight miles north-east of Mangaon town and five miles west of the main range of the Sahyadris. It is the smallest of the three Mangaon forts Visramgad, Talagad and Mangad, being about 145 feet long by thirteen broad. It is entered by one gateway, and is surrounded by a ruinous triangular wall which seems never to have been of any considerable height. There are remains of one bastion but no trace of guns. Within the fort is a small Musalman tomb or dargha, nine rock-cut cisterns with good water, and several large hollows cut in the rock, said to be granaries. The fort is traditionally believed to have been built by Sivaji, but the
tomb seems to show that the builders were Musalmans. The fort seems to have never been more than an outpost, and never to have been occupied by any considerable body of troops [Mr. E. H. Moscardi, C. S.]. It was taken in May 1818 by a detachment under Captain Sopitt [Bombay Courier, 9th May 1818.].
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