A History of the Mahrattas v1.c17.122
A History of the Mahrattas v1.c17.122
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² Beejapoor MSS. It is said he was put to death in consequence of some popular commotion in his favour. He is buried in Beejapoor. [V. A. Smith (O.H.I.) states that Sikandar died in prison fifteen years after the fall of Bijāpur, i.e. in 1701. A footnote on p. 17 of Cousens' Bijāpur (A.S.I., xxxviii) states that he was poisoned in 1111 A.H. (A.D. 1699). Sikandar's grave at Bijāpur is a simple, uncovered structure, midway between the Dakhani Idgah and the unfinished mausoleum of Alī Ādil Shāh II.]