Monday, August 1, 2016

Kila Shikan, Devgiri Fort

The 14th century Devgiri Fort is known for various bronze canons found all around the fort. One such canon is Kila Shikan.

The canon located in a strategic place named so mean Fort Breaker. It lies on a stone platform.

The impressive canon has a ram-head.

The canon has the name inscribed on it in Persian.

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16 comments:

  1. Sherlyn Lobo11:02

    Hey that's a beautiful little fort

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  2. Kenneth Cole Schneider19:42

    Very ornate cannons! So much work to put into an instrument of destruction.

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  3. Al01:54

    So much effort went into making this machine of death beautiful.

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  4. Joyful10:39

    Terrific photos!

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  5. Daliana Pacuraru14:41

    Interesting place! My best regards from Romania!

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  6. Lady Fi15:10

    The ram's head is very impressive.

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  7. Anonymous15:20

    that is interesting :)

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  8. MelodyK22:39

    wonderful photo's... but I would need to pass on climbing those stairs

    Have a nice ABC-W-Day / – week
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  9. Leslie:23:22

    Wow! Pretty fancy canons!

    Leslie
    abcw team

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  10. carol l mckenna00:36

    Lovely array of photos ~

    Happy Day to you ~ ^_^

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  11. photowannabe01:06

    Amazing fort and all the statuary is wonderful too.

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  12. Roger Owen Green06:53

    a mighty fortress!

    ROG, ABCW

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  13. Amit Agarwal12:36

    Amazing cannon!

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  14. Amit Agarwal12:37

    That which always shot didn't know it would be shot some day;)

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  15. Margaret Birding For Pleasure23:59

    Very interesting. Have a great weekend.

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  16. Yogi Saraswat13:40

    The impressive canon has a ram-head. Amazing piece !!

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