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TALA
Tala (T. Manganv; p. 3,807, RS. Mumbra, 85 m), eleven miles
north-west of Manganv, is a market town. It can be reached by the Janjira creek which runs to Malati, about three miles north of Tala, or, by land, by a motorable road from Roha, which is about twelve miles to the north. The road runs from Indapur, a village on the main Bombay-Konkan-Goa road nine and a half miles east of Taja. [Mr. H. Kennedy.] Tala appears, to have been a place of import-ance before the time of the Musalmans as some remains were found in the past of an early Hindu or Hemadpanti temple, some of the stones of which have been built into a Musalman shrine and others into a well-maintained mosque near a pond in the Pusati quarters of the town. A few Hemadpanti stones in the fort seem to show that the fort also contained a small building in that style. There are five ponds in Tala of which the
Pusati pond in the Pusati quarter of the town though old of all of them is still in use.
Another pond, which was huilt in 1834 under the orders of the Collector of Thana, is known as Jari Jivan Saheb's or Mr. George Giberne's pond. In the middle of the village, set in a rock, is an inscribed slab, 5' 6" high by V 6" broad. It is known as Dhvajaca dagad or the banner-stone. The inscription is worn and not legible. [Mr. W. F. Sinclair, C. S.]
Tala is a small business centre where people from surrounding villages come to buy necessaries of life.
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