PARANDA

About paranda:-

Parenda, the headquarters town of the tahsil situated on the interfluve between the Sina and its tributary, the Dudna. There are also a few tanks in its neighbourhood. The town is connected by a fine tar road with Barsi in Solapur district, a distance of 27.36 km (17 miles) and there is a regular bus service plying between these two towns. The earliest possible reference to the place is found in the Puranas wherein it is referred to as Paramdhampur subsequently changed to Pracandpur, so-called perhaps because of the large size of the town then. It is difficult to state as to when the nomenclature was changed to Parenda.
The city is located around the historical fort.. This is oldest municipal council in the Osmanabad district. there are total 97 villages in the Paranda taluka.
There is an ancient historical FORTE in Paranda town. Paranda has great historical background. Paranda is also known as a Taluka of Temples and Mosques

Regarding Fort at Paranda:-



The fort was is probably 800+ Year Old. The Fort is surrounded by trench from all the sites.
There is a Mosque and Hindu Temple inside the Fort.. The authorities should take proper care to preserve this monument This fort has not faced any battle in past 400 years and it was used for storage of material only
The fort is one of the many forts erected by the Bahamani kings and is a fine spicemen of military Architecture and engineering. The gates defended by traversals and redoubts and the Ramparts. These are of the out and dressed stones with round bastions fitted for the heavy guns of the period. Around the fort there is a moat, which was always kept filled with water. Inside the fort there are 26 bastions amongst which the note-worthy are” MAHAKAL BURUJ” “BURUJ MAHAKAL,” BULAND BURUJ,” CHANCHAL BURUJ,” and shah mathkal ,” and NASSA YEED BURUJ” on the some of the bastions there are old guns the most important of which are” Malike maiden”, and Azda Paikar” The great bronze gund viz. Malika Maiden” now at Bijapur, is side to have been original mounted here. At present inside the fort there are the mosque, Narsimaha Mandir” and wall called “ RAMTIRTH” but there are also remains of the building like BARADARI, TAIKHANA, ZANANA MAKAN, etc. The remains of the walls and the dilapidated remains give an impression that at one time there might have been spacious and exquisites constructions.

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