A History of the Mahrattas v1.c16.83

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¹ [V. A. Smith (O.H.I., p. 430) writes: ‘April 5 is the date according to Grant Duff and Orme. Fryer gives June 1 (iii. 167, with Crooke’s note). Mānkar (p. 111) states the Hindu equivalent date as Sunday, Chait 15, 1602 Saka, in the Rudra year. But, according to chronological tables, April 5, 1680, was Monday.’ Kincaid and Parasnis give April 3, 1680, but mention no authority for differing from Grant Duff and Orme. Clément, the French agent at Rājāpur in a letter of April 29, 1680, preserved in the National Archives at Paris, states that Sivājī had died twelve days previously, i.e. April 17, 1680 (N.S.) (Crooke on p. 167 of Fryer’s Travels (Hakluyt)). ‘His