A History of the Mahrattas v1.c9.97

v1.c9.97

deities had been invoked in vain to grant an heir. A celebrated Mahomedan saint or peer, named Shah Shureef,¹ residing at Ahmednugur, was engaged to offer up prayers to this desirable end; and Mallojee’s wife having shortly after given birth to a son, in gratitude to the peer’s supposed benediction, the child was named after him, Shah, with the Mahratta adjunct of respect, jee; and in the ensuing year, a second son was in like manner named Shureefjee. Shahjee was born in 1594.