Shivaji and His Times c20.s8.t1.2

c20.s8.t1.2

But the most valuable Marathi account of Shivaji and our main source of information from the Maratha side. Later biographies in the same language have mostly copied this Sabhasad Bakhar and padded out their source (Sabhasad) by means of Sanskrit quotations, miracles, rhetorical flourishes, emotional gush, and commonplace remarks and details added from the probabilities of the case or from pure imagination. [In Sane's 4th ed. the text has been very unwisely mixed up.]