The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c10.53

c10.53

The ancestors of Shivaji come from Verola or Ellora. Maloji, Shivaji's grandfather, was the first of the family who rose to note. He married the sister of the naik of Phaltan, and about the beginning of the seventeenth century was put in charge of Shivner and Chakan and received the districts of Poona and Supa in jahgir. His son Shahji married the daughter of Lokhji Jadhav of Sindkhed, one of the chief nobles of the Nizam Shah court, and Shivaji was born at Shivner in A.D. 1627. The jahgir obtained by Shahji from the king of Bijapur was managed by a Brahman named Dadaji Kondev, who had also charge of Shivaji. Dadaji made Poona his head-quarters, and his management of the districts was able and successful. Shahji was for many years employed in the Karnatak, where another large jahgir had been granted to him.