Shivaji and His Times c12.s2.2
Shivaji and His Times c12.s2.2
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c12.s2.2
The Marathi chronicles speak of Shivaji's fleet as consisting at its best of four hundred vessels of various sizes and classes, such as *ghurabs* (gun-boats), *tarandes*, tarambes, gallivats, shibars, pagars, manchwas, &c. But the English factory reports never put their number above 160, and usually as 60 only. They were formed into two squadrons (of 200 vessels each, if we accept the Marathi accounts), and commanded by two admirals who bore the titles of Daria Sarang (Admiral of the Ocean) and Mai Nayak or Mian Nayak.*