A History of the Mahrattas v2.c44.26

v2.c44.26

¹ [Fryer (1675) was one of the earliest writers to use this form of the name Bhōslē. He refers to Sivājī as ‘derived from an ancient line of Rajahs, of the cast of the Bounceloes’ (original ed., p. 171). Other forms of the name given by early writers are Bhoslah (Khāfī Khān in Elliot, vii. 257), Bhosselah (Seir Mutaqherin, iii. 204), and Bonzolo (Sonnerat, i. 60). The Desāi of Wādī in question was Khem Sāvant the Great, who ruled from 1775 to 1803.]