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∗ This chapter is mainly based upon the detailed reports of the English ambassador Henry Oxinden (both Letters and Memorial or Narrative), the English interpreter Narayan Shenvi, and the Dutch merchant Abraham Le Feber (of Vingurla), preserved in Factory Records, Surat, Vols. 88 and 3, and Dutch Records, Vol. xxxiv. No. 841, of the India Office, London. These have been supplemented by Sabhasad (82-84). The Persian MS. Tarikh-i-Shivaji, 39a, confirms the contemporary European records in some particulars in a surprising manner. The Bombay Gazetteer (xi. 369) has pointed out that the Chitnis bakhar imputes to Shivaji's coronation in 1674 the ceremonies which marked the Peshwa's coronation of a century later!