Guns — It may be as well here to give a list of all the guns in Bijapur with their present (November 1888) positions.
They are :
The large iron gun on the Landa Kasab bastion, the largest in Bijapur.
An iron mortar beside the last on the same bastion.
The Malik-i-Maidan, of cast gun metal, beside the the Sherza Burj, about the middle of the western ramparts of the town.
An iron gun on the Farangishahi bastion, above the Makka gateway. *
An iron gun on the seventh bastion south of the Makka gate. *
A small iron gun on the fifth bastion south of the Allahpur gate. *
An iron gun, the Mustafabad Gun, on the first bastion south of the Allahpur gate.
An iron gun on the Ali Burj north of the Gol Gumbaz.
An iron gun on the Sunda Burj, the second bastion north of the Shahapur gate. *
The long iron gun, the Lamcharri, on the Haidar Burj.
The shorter iron gun on the Haidar Burj.
A well finished iron gun temporarily mounted on the platform of Khawas Khan's tomb (the Executive Engineer's office). *
A small mortar in gun metal beside the last. *
* Nos. 4, 5, 6, 9, 12, and 13 are being moved from their present positions, where they are rather inaccessible and out of the way, to the citadel, where it is proposed to place them with miscellaneous fragments of old buildings, stone cannon balls, etc. found lying about the town.