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his *chīlam* into a powder cell. Thevenot the traveller gives a different account. According to him, a faithful commander of the place took his stand in the college along with his army, and refused to submit to Aurangzib. When, however, a breach was made in the wall and signal given for the assault, then suddenly by the fall of a rocket or by the order of the commander, who preferred death to subjection, the magazine blew up at a moment when the roof was covered with the garrison who had assembled there for selling themselves as dearly as possible [*Oriental Annual* (1840), by T. Bacon, pp. 189, 190; see also Fergusson’s *Architecture at Bījāpūr*, pp. 13 ff., and Thevenot’s *Travels into the Levant*]. There is a picture of Gāwān’s college in the *Archaeological Survey of Western India*, vol. iii, by Burgess (1875–76), but the one from the *Oriental Annual*, sketched by Meadows Taylor, has been reproduced in this work (see Frontispiece).