The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c7.s9.184

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Bájiráv three or four years before his deposition had built a palace at Guhágar,⁵ six miles south of Dábhol, both as a hot-weather retreat and to enable him to perform his religious rites on the sea-shore. Every one who has been to this delightful place will acknowledge Bájiráv's good taste in fixing on the "Bay of the Bráhmans" as it was called by the Portuguese and early navigators.⁶ He visited it for some years in succession,⁷ his route being down the Kumbhárli Ghát and through Chiplún, where the building now used as the kacheri was erected for his accommodation. The greater part of the palace at Guhágar was pulled down shortly after our Government took the Konkan, and the materials used for Government buildings at Ratnágiri.⁵