A History of the Mahrattas v1.c22.83

v1.c22.83

¹ He was defeated by Dummajee Gaekwar, before the battle of Dubhoy, in 1731. ² Eight thousand by the lowest computation. ³ Called Sashtee by the Mahrattas. [Sāshti or Shāshti (Sashtee) is a shortened form of Shashāsti (Sanskrit Shatshashti), i.e. ‘66’ (villages). The name appears in the form Shatsāshti in a stone inscription of A.D. 1182, while a copper-plate inscription of A.D. 1027 records the grant of a village, ‘one of the 66 of Srī Sthānaka (Thāna).’ (J.B.B.R.A.S., xii. 334, and J.R.A.S., ii. 283.)]