Bahadurgad (Dharmaveergad)

Bahadurgad stands in Pedgaon village, Ahmednagar district, on the north bank of the Bhima river, about 15 km east of Daund and 100 km from Pune. Under the Mughals Pedgaon was a chief store and frontier post; in 1672 the Deccan viceroy Khan Jahan camped here while pursuing Shivaji, cut channels to bring water from the Bhima, and renamed the place Bahadurgad. Shivaji later took it by outwitting the Mughal commander. Sambhaji and Kavi Kalash were tortured here when they refused to convert, and the fort has been renamed Dharmaveergad in Sambhaji's memory. The Peshwas held it from 1759 to 1818.

The fort is rectangular with two gates, the one facing the village in good condition and the river gate ruined. Inside are a 5-foot Hanuman statue and five Yadava-period temples in Hemadpanti style, to Baleshwar, Lakshmi-Narayan, Mallikarjun, Rameshwar and Bhairavnath, with hero stones, sati stones, cannonballs, a deepmal and a Shiva statue before the Bhairavnath temple. A two-storey palace of Aurangzeb, a mot and a Persian wheel also survive.