A History of the Mahrattas v1.c10.19

v1.c10.19

⁴ [Kincaid and Parasnis (History of the Marāthā People) give April 10, 1627, as the date of Sivājī’s birth, as stated in the Marāthi Itihāsanche Sangraha, but offer no reasons for differing from Grant Duff, who is supported by Mānkar in his introduction to Krishnājī Anant Sabhāsad’s life of Sivājī (English translation). The Tārīkh-i-Shivājī, a Persian MS. in the India Office, translated by Prof. J. Sarkar, and the Shivdigvijaya and Chitnis bakhars place his birth on April 6, 1627, or near about that date. The Zedhe Chronology, which gives original and surprisingly correct dates about later events in Shivājī’s history, places his birth in February 1630. (J. Sarkar, Shivaji and His Times, Calcutta (1919), p. 23.)]