New History of the Marathas v1.c19.s1.13

v1.c19.s1.13

But the Emperor was obdurate, and only relented so far as to concede that Shāhu would be spared on condition that two prominent Maratha youths offered themselves for conversion in his place; his order once issued must have its course. Shāhu then begged Khandoji and Jagjivan, two sons of Shivaji’s Senapati Prataprao Gujar, who were his companions in captivity in the Emperor’s camp, to offer themselves for the sacrifice. They were accordingly converted and renamed Abdur-Rahim and Abdur-Rahman. Shāhu later gave these two men in Inam the village of Salgaum which is near Parli and is still enjoyed by their descendants,—both the Hindu and the Muslim branches living in amity and neighbourhood close to each other.