"Above, on the mountain top is a very remarkable fortress called Taragarh...with very little improvement from European skill, it might easily be made a second Gibraltar."
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Bishop R. Heber, quoted in Ajmer Historical and Descriptive (1941) by Sarda Har Bilas
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