Report on the medical topography and statistics of the Nizam's military cantonments and army : compiled partly from records in the superintending surgeon's office, and reports furnished by medical officers attached to the service.
- Date:
- [1852]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report on the medical topography and statistics of the Nizam's military cantonments and army : compiled partly from records in the superintending surgeon's office, and reports furnished by medical officers attached to the service. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The city of Aurungabad is in longitude 76*03 East, and latitude 19*46 North, it was originally called Gorrkha; but after changed by Aurungzeeb when Viceroy of the Deccan, it was then an extensive well built town, abun- dantly supplied with water brought by aquaducts from the surrounding hills in the neighbourhood, almost every house having its tank or fountain. The city situated in the centre of an ampitheatre of hills strikes the eye of the stranger with an imposing appearance of solemn grandeur, the whole view is stud- ded with mosques and ruins, having all the magnificence of exterior which the mind attaches to a city of the east, with also a due proportion of dilapidation, filth and neg- lect, which a closer view but too generally realizes. It once had a large and handsome bazar called the Shah- jung noted for its silks, kincobs, and muslin embroidery; the city is now going fast to decay and the productions of more propitious times are greatly neglected, its aqua- ducts are broken, the tanks obstructed and never cleaned out or repaired, the fine ruins of the palace have been appropriated to purposes of building, that it is now almost impossible to form an adequate idea of its ancient splendour. A chaste and beautiful structure erected over the re- mains of a favorite daughter of Aurungzeeb, after the model of the Taj at Agra, attests the taste, magnificence and piety of the founder. The walls surrounding the garden are broken and fast falling to decay, a few years ago a portion of one of the miniarets fell down, the remaining three have since had coarse and rudely con- structed walls erected [to prevent a similar disaster] be-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20407373_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
