A History of the Mahrattas v1.c7.146

v1.c7.146

² Mahratta MSS. and tradition. [The founder of the Sirkē, or Shīrkē, family was one Vankojī, who acquired eighty-four villages in the Konkan about the thirteenth century. In later years the Sirkēs were settled at Raigarh and were employed as vassals of the Nizāmshāhī dynasty, from whom they obtained the sardēshmūkhī of twelve mahāls, including the Mahābaleshwar hills. In the middle of the sixteenth century they were suppressed by the Bījāpur Sultān, their position being taken by the Mores of Jāvli. Descendants of the Sirkēs, who held the dēshmūkhī watan of Dābhol, were silāhdārs under the Marāthā government. (Mahableshwar, by D. B. Parasnis, Bombay, 1916.)]