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THE RUIN OF AURANGZIB northern Konkan. Presently his rule extended on the seacoast from Kaliani in the north to the neighbour- hood of Portuguese Goa, a distance of over 250 miles; east of the Ghats it reached to Mirich on the Krishna; and its breadth in some parts was as much as one hun- dred miles. It was not a vast dominion, but it sup- TIIE Mill I AU I M All VI. AT BIJAFUR. ported an army of over fifty thousand men, and it had been built up with incredible patience and daring. He had no anxiety on the score of his eastern neighbour, the King of Bijapur, whose troops he routed and whose lands ho plundered at will; and he now longed for fresh fields of rapine. The Hindus had