A History of the Mahrattas v1.c5.s4.48

v1.c5.s4.48

Of prose literature prior to the nineteenth century there is little to be recorded, the chief works being the *Vetal Panchāishi*, the *Panchopākhyan* and *Sinhāsan Battishi*, which are books of fable, and the *Bakhars* or accounts of Sivājī’s life and times, the respective historical values of which have been explained by Professor Jadunāth Sarkar on pages 500, 501 of his recent (1919) publication—*Shivaji and His Times*.