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BEED-KASABA
Beed-Kasaba (Karvir T.: 16° 35' N; 74°
05' E; p. 3,121), an old village in the Karvir taluka, lies on the
Pancganga about nine miles south-west of Kolhapur. Bid has a temple
of Bidesvar, 51' x 25' x 45' high,, and a Friday market, where small
quantities of grain, coarse cloth, and vegetables are brought for
sale. Though now a small village, Bid is said to have once been the
capital of an old chief ship which included Kolhapur and Panhala.
Round the village are many ruins, among them an old stone temple
with an image under which is a broken stone with the fragment of an
inscription. The walls and columns, with numerous mouldings and much
scroll work are in the style of about the thirteenth century. Small
ancient gold coins are sometimes found near the old mud fort.
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