A History of the Mahrattas v2.c55.66
A History of the Mahrattas v2.c55.66
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¹ [The capital of the Rāstē (Rastia) family was Wai in Sātāra District, twenty miles from Sātāra and about fifty miles south of Poona, where, in 1798, Parasurām Bhāu Patvardhan was incarcerated. Moor (The Hindu Pantheon, 1st ed., p. 349) describes Wai in 1810 as the capital and ‘principal residence of the rich and great Brahman family of Rasta, one of the five great independent feudal chiefs of the Mahratta Empire, and nearly related to the Peshwa.’ In 1827 the