A History of the Mahrattas v1.c9.5

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³ One of the situations by which Nizam Ool Moolk ascended to power was that of having charge of the royal falconry; the Byheree being a species of hawk much used in the Deccan, he obtained the name of Byheree from that circumstance. [Ranade (Rise of the Maratha Power) states that the surname Bahrī (Byheree) was a corruption of the Hindu surname Bhāirav, borne by the Kulkarni of Pātri, and that the Ahmadnagar Sultāns, remembering their origin, gave that village in inām to the Brahman Kulkarnis after capturing it from the Imādshāhī rulers of Berar. This explanation accords with the account in Briggs’ Ferishta III, 189, 190, to the effect that Nizām-ul-Mulk’s original name was Timappa son of Bhairu. During a famine in the north Deccan he accompanied his father to the Carnatic, and while there was taken prisoner by Muhammadan troops in