Pedgaon

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Pedgaon
Pedgaon Location of Pedgaon in Maharashtra and India
Coordinates	18°31′0″N 74°42′0″E / 18.516667°N 74.7°E / 18.516667; 74.7
Country	India
State	Maharashtra
District(s)	Ahmednagar
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
Area • Coastline	• 0 km (0 mi)
Codes • Vehicle • MH-

Pedgaon is in a Shrigonda Talukas of Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra State, India.

Pedgaon is a small village in Ahemadnagar district in Maharashtra on the bank of Bhima river. Pedgaon is situated on Shrigonda Rashin road. Another road is Pune-Daund-Siddhatek-Rashin Fata-Pedgaon fata-Pedgaon. There are no hotels or lodges in the village. The village consists of one fort known as Fort of Pedgaon or Bahadurgad is now Dharmaveergad. Fort is in total ruins. It contains one building known as Mastani Mahal. There are five temples in the fort, two of which are known as Lakshmi Narayan temple and Baleshwar Temple. Lakshmi Narayan temple is a good example of architecture with carved pillers, images of animals on the walls of temple. There is a good carving in the temple. Now there are no images in the temple. Another Baleshwar temple is dedicated to Lord Shiv. It is also in ruined state. It contains 8 pillars with good carving.

[edit] History

Once, Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire got the news that 200 first-rate Arab horses along with some riches had reached Bahadurgad (in Pedgaon). Bahadur Khan was the commander of the fort at that time. Shivaji planned to loot the horses and the riches. He organized a force of 9000 and divided it into two- one of 2000 and the other of 7000. Bahadur Khan came to know about the proposed raid of Shivaji and kept the main gate of the fort open and prepared his force. However, Shivaji himself had arranged for the leaking of Marathas' plan of attacking Bahadurgad. Accordingly 2000 Marathas entered the fort through the main gate. The watchful Mughals attacked the Marathas. However, Marathas were not interested in fighting and retreated. Bahadur Khan started chasing them. This was exactly what Shivaji wanted. The fort was left defenseless. The second batch of 7000 Marathas attacked Bahadurgad. They quickly got hold of the 200 Arab horses and the riches, and fled. Moreover, Bahadur Khan could not catch hold of the retreating Marathas known for their speed and highly mobile nature of operations. Marathas were successful in deceiving Bahadur Khan and the Adilshahi forces.^[1]

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