A History of the Mahrattas v1.c21.29

v1.c21.29

The victory over Dhabaray, like the issue of every civil war, left impressions on the minds of many, not easily effaced; but the Peishwa adopted every means of conciliation in his power. It had been a custom to feed some thousand Bramins for several days every year at Tullygaom,¹ near Poona, the Enam village of Dhabaray; this charitable practice Bajee Rao continued at Poona, and gave sums of money at the same time to the assembled Shastrees and Waeedeeks. This festival, continued by his successors, was known by the name of Dukshina.²