A Souvenir of the Thirty-Seventh Session of the Indian Science Congress Held at Poona January 1950

The famous temple of Bhimashankar„on the crest of the Sahyadris 20 miles north of KlIndala marks the source of the Bhima. [...] above sea level at the confluence of the Mula and the Mutha two of the countless rivulets that originate in the Western Ghats numerous spurs from which almost enter the city both from the west and the south. [...] The oldest part of the city called the Kasaba Peth between the old stone culvert or the Dagadi Pool and the new Lloyd Bridge has outgrown into the present city that spreads on the south side of the Mula-Mutha. [...] The entire city with its suburbs the camp and all extensions old and new comprise an area of nearly twenty-five square miles ; its length from the foot of the Vetal Hill in the west to the far end of Ghorpadi in the east and the breadth from the foot of the Parvati-in the south to the far end of Kirkee in the north being more than five and half miles and four and half miles respectively. [...] The palace was a splendid specimen of its type in the Deccan though it faded into insignificance by the side of similar buildings in the north and in the extreme south of the Indian peninsula.