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CHAP. III.] TREATY WITH BIJAPUR. 39 Bhima and the Sina rivers, including the forts of Sholapur and Parenda; in the north-east, the parganahs of Bhalki and Chidgupa ;* and that portion of the Konkan which had once belonged to the Nizam Shahs, including the Puna and Chakan districts. These acquisitions comprised 50 parganahs and yielded a revenue of 20 lakhs of hun (or eighty lakhs of rupees). The rest of the Nizam Shahi dominion was to be recognized as annexed to the Empire beyond question or doubt. (4) Adil Shah should pay the Emperor a peace-offering of twenty lakhs of rupees in cash and kind. But no annual tribute was imposed. (5) Golkonda being now a State under Im- perial protection, Adil Shah should in future treat it with friendship, respect its frontier (which was fixed at the river Manjira, or roughly at 78⁰ East longitude), and never demand costly presents from its Sultan, to whom he must behave "like an elder brother." (6) Each side undertook not to seduce the

  • Wangi, 1811 N. 75 12 E. one mile E. of the Bhima and

21 m. S. W. of Parenda (Ind. At., 39 S. E.) Parenda, 18.15 N. 75.31 E. (Ibid.) Bhalki, 18-2 N. 77 15 E., 19 m. N. E. of Kaliani (Ibid, 56.) Chidgupa 17°42 N. 77′17 E., 21 m. S. E. of Kaliani and 10 m. W. of Homnabad (Ibid, 57). Chakan, 18:45 N. 73'55 E., 30 m. S. of Junnar (Ibid, 39 N. W.). Digitized by Microsoft Ⓡ