A History of the Mahrattas v1.c10.5
A History of the Mahrattas v1.c10.5
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hāsad) by means of Sanskrit quotations, miracles, rhetorical flourishes, emotional gush and commonplace remarks and details added from the probabilities of the case or from pure imagination.' (Shivaji and His Times, Calcutta (1919), p. 500). Professor Rawlinson has also remarked in a letter to Dr. V. A. Smith that K. A. Sabhāsad's bakhar 'contains many details not to be found in other bakhars, notably an account of the sack of Surat.']