Saath Kabar. Graves of 63 wives of Afzal Khan, because he thought they would remarry after his death. Before going out for battle with Maratha King Shivaji in 1659 he drowned them at a well near Saath Kabar. Because his astrologers told him he would die in battle. Near Bijapur, India[1440×1083]

Saath Kabar (meaning: sixty graves) is called the ‘dark tourist spot’ in Bijapur as it is a moot witness to a very tragic story linked to it. Local stories and rumors allege that Afzal Khan, the brave army chief of Ali Adil Shahi-II of Bijapur Sultanate, killed his 63 wives out of cruel jealousy that they would remarry after his death. Before setting out for a crucial battle with Shivaji, the Maratha warrior, at Pratapgad in Maharashtra in 1659, Afzal Khan murdered his 63 wives at a well near Saath Kabar. The trigger which caused this tragic decision was the prophecy that his astrologers had given that he would lose the war against Shivaji and would also surely die. He, therefore, took his wives to a well at the outer limits of the fort city and pushed them into the well one by one and killed them. When two of his wives tried to escape, they were chased by his soldiers and killed. All 63 wives, who were killed thus, were buried in a place near the well, which has come to be known as “Saath Kabar” (60 graves)