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Manjarsumba Fort .  Manjarsumba fort  is a 14th century structure built by Nizam Shah, who ruled in the nearby  Ahmednagar . ... One of the best things about  Manjarsumba fort  is that it had a two-storey structure — called 'mottha' — that was used to circulate water all over the  fort . This is a very rare finding in any  fort . In 1803 the Ahmednagar Fort was round in appearance, with twenty-four bastions, one large gate, and three small sally ports. It had a   glacis , no covered way; a   ditch , revetted with stone on both sides, about 18 feet (5.5 m) wide, with 9 feet (2.7 m) water all around, which only reached within 6 or 7 feet (2.1 m) of the top of the   scarp ; long reeds grew in it all around. The   berm   was only about one yard wide. The rampart was of black hewn stone; the parapet of brick in   chunam , and both together appeared from the crest of the glacis to be only as high as the pole of a field-officer's tent. The bastions were all about ​ 4   1