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Afzul Khan’s wives’ Tombs

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About one km to the south of Afzul Khan’s tomb, are his wives tombs on a large masonry platform. There are eleven rows of graves, belonging to 63 women and an open empty grave. According to tradition, Afzal Khan was so impressed with the prediction of the astrologers that he would never return to Bijapur, he had all his wives drowned before setting out and all but one who escaped his superstition were buried here close by is an old well in which the women of the harem are said to have met with their watery grave.

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