Shivaji and His Times c20.s4.3

c20.s4.3

Such skeleton chronologies (Shakavalis) were in use among various noble families in Maharashtra in the 18th century, and have been recovered in parts only. There was a short kernel of the leading events common to them all; but each family added entries about what happened to its own ancestors or about events in its neighbourhood, and therefore they cannot serve as independent checks on one another. Many mistakes were also made in reading the old Modi script of the original MSS.