This cannon is on a turret called Petla Burj (pot-belly bastion) on the western wall of Golconda Fort and was one of those used during the last siege of Golconda by Aurangzeb. Verses are engraved on the cannon, which is 16 feet 2 inches long. The diameter of the bore is 2 feet 3 ‘/2 inches and the circumference at the other end 8 feet 8 inches. There are other
& Goconda but this is the most impressive among them.
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