A History of the Mahrattas v2.c36.58

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² [Chinchvad (Chinchore) lies ten miles north-west of Poona, and is famous for a shrine of the god Ganpatī, who is said to have become incarnate in the person of a boy, Moroba, about the middle of the seventeenth century. Moroba was succeeded by a line of incarnations, known as the Devs of Chinchvad, which died out in 1810. The family, which now controls the properties and temples of the Devs, lives in a mansion built partly by Nāna Farnavīs and partly by Hari Pant Phadks. (I.G. Bom., 1909, i. 512–13.) See also Frazer, The Golden Bough, 3rd ed., vol. i; The Magic Art, pp. 405 f., for a reference to the Chinchvad Devs.]