A History of the Mahrattas v2.c47.33

v2.c47.33

houses, built partly of stone and partly of brick. The fort of Sātāra, perched on the summit of a small, steep, rocky hill, is said to take its name from the seventeen (sātāra) walls, towers and gates which it is supposed to have possessed. A description of the fort and the dwelling of the Rāja of Sātāra in 1818, when Sātāra was finally captured by the British, will be found in Mountstuart Elphinstone’s diary under date February 11, 1818, on pp. 26, 27, vol. ii, Colebrooke’s Life of M. Elphinstone (1884).]