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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[APRIL, 1874.
To this her sister-in-law replied, "What you say is true, but where one has not enjoyed the happiness of marriage it does not behove one to die." Umâ then uttered in reply the following kavit :
मरण भोष दजोण माण जल पेसे मुक्यो मरण भोअ पंडवे कोट हसनापुर सोप्यो मरण भोअ वीक्रम क्षत्रीहोई वायस खाधो मरण भोष रावणे जीव रख करणे बांधो वकराल झाल भुबह वदन सनमख अंग झाला सहे पेड मल्लराव पडगाहतां कथन एम उमा
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From the fear of death Duryodhan, entering into
the water, lost his honour. From the fear of death the Pandavas surrendered
the fortress of Hastinapur (Dehli). From the fear of death Vikram, though a
Kshatri, ate a crow. From the fear of death Ravana tied his life in a
sunbeam. Yet the very terrible body like flame (of death),
this flame must be endured by our body face
to face. Hearing of the death of Mal Rào this speech
utters U ma.
After thus speaking, Um & refused to listen to all attempts at dissuasion, and, going to Jodhpur, she mounted the funeral pile on the death of Ra o MÅlde vatwo or three days after her arrival.
MUSALMÂN REMAINS IN THE SOUTH KONKAN.
BY A. K. NAIRNE, Esq., Bo. C.S.
III.-Chaul. I am now able to give a few details as to the and their united fleet attacked the ships of the ancient city of Chaul and the connection of the Portuguese, which were then lying in Chaul Musalmans with it:butthe short account that I can harbour, and after an obstinate fight defeated supply should be looked on rather as notes which them, the Portuguese acknowledging a loss of may help others having more acquaintance with 140 killed and 124 wounded, among the killed the district to work up a complete history of it. being Don Lorenzo d'Almeida, the commander
When the Portuguese came to Chaul, in the of the fleet and son of the Viceroy. Soon after first years of the sixteenth century, it was this the Portuguese had a factory at Chaul, and a great city belonging to the kingdom of in 1520 they got permission to build a fort, which Ahmadnagar, which during the century was not of any great size, and is probably that attained to independence. The Portuguese which still stands just inside the gateway openalways call the king Nizamaluoo-no doubt from ing on to the landing-place at Revadanda. Nizâm-ul-Malik, one of the great men under the Owing to the constant allianoe between the last king of the united Dekhan, and father of Ahmadnagar kings and the Portuguese, the founder of the Nizam Shahi dynasty of Chaul for many years escaped the evil fate Ahmad nagar. Chaul at this time had a which fell on Dá bhol and the other towns of great trade with Persia and the Red Sea, and the coast : for whereas D & bhol was four times with Dá bholalmost mo opolized the trade in burnt and plundered between 1508 and 1557, hcases, which from very barly times had been Chaul was never even threatened with hostilimost important to the Dekhan kings, whether ties until 1557, when a misunderstanding Hindu or Muhammadan. The richness of the arose, owing to the Portuguese demanding persilks manufactured there is also mentioned. mission to build a fort on the rocky promontory Owing to the rivalry of the kings of Gujarat, of Korle, which is opposite to Reya danda Bijapur, and Ahmadnagar, who shared and commands the whole harbour. The Musal. the Konkan among them, the latter found it to mans, while expressing their willingness to be his interest to keep on good terms with the Por- negotiate, sent a large foroe which took possestuguest, and even to pay them a tribute for the sion of Korlê, and began to fortify it on their protection of his ships. But in 1508 the kings own account. The Portuguese ships prevented of Gujarât and Egypt entered into an alliance, much progress being made with the fortifications,
