Shivaji and His Times c20.s3.1

c20.s3.1

Next after Sabhasad's work (1694) both in point of time and reliability, is a group of shorter histories, all derived from the same original and all forming one type. In Marathi they are known as the *91 qalmi* (or *96 qalmi*) Bakhar (printed in the *Prabhat* by Rajwade and in the *Bharatvarsha* by Parasnis), and to readers of Grant Duff as the *Raigarh life*, Frissell's English version of which has been printed by Forrest. The *Tarikh-i-Shivaji* represents an amplified Persian translation of the same work, evidently made from an earlier and longer Marathi original than the *91 qalmi* Bakhar. Warren Hastings presented a MS. of it to the India Office, London, and some other copies exist in the British Museum and elsewhere.