Shivaji and His Times c11.s1.4
Shivaji and His Times c11.s1.4
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c11.s1.4
At Mirjan, a port twenty miles south-east of Karwar, pepper, saltpetre and betel-nut were shipped for Surat. Gersappa, a district annexed by Bednur, was so famous for its pepper that the Portuguese used to call its Rani "the Pepper Queen." (Ibid., 333 and 124.)