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PLACES
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TARLA
Tarla, (Patan T; 17° 25' N, 73° 55' E; RS Masur 15 m. SE;
p. 3,804) about ten miles north-east of Patan is an alienated village. The village is connected to Patan by a motorable road which goes via Umbraj. It is the chief trading village in the valley of the Tarli. There is another short cut to Helvak which can be used for bullocks and ponies going by Nivkane, Karvat, and Vajeganv. The Tarli valley grows a great deal of rice and some wheat and sugarcane most of which comes to the Tarla market before export to Ciplun. The water-supply of the town is taken from an excellent spring in a small tributary of the Tarli, over which a temple of God Mahadev has been built. The temple is neither old nor noteworthy, but the spring water is very good for drinking. Another spring flows on the other side of the temple and its water is used for washing and bathing. Both the springs have ample supply of water but their only defect is that they have stone steps facilitating their indiscriminate use by the people and thus leading sometimes to pollution.
The village was alienated to the Mahadik family, a Maratha house
of distinction and one of the branches of which was connected by
marriage with the line of Shivaji. During the 1857 rebellion
a member of the Mahadik family was concerned in the Satara plot,
and his share in the family possessions was confiscated. The
neighbourhood of Tarla was considered a fit site for one of the large
irrigation schemes. It was proposed to make here a storage pond;
which would increase the supply for the Krshna canal and give
enough water for another canal on the right bank.
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