Shivaji and His Times c20.s8.t6: F. Portuguese
Shivaji and His Times c20.s8.t6
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133. *Vida e accoens do famoso e felicissimo Sevagy* escrita por Cosme de Guarda, natural de Murmugao. (Lisbon, 1730.) Composed in 1695 (p. 40.) Contains 168 pages. Full of gross inaccuracies, mistakes of persons, useless digressions, bazar gossip and things known to us from other sources. It may more properly be styled 'The marvellous romance of Shivaji,' as it contains a minimum of facts dates and proper names and a maximum of words and general descriptions. It tells us nothing new that is historically true. C. da Guarda was not the real author's name.
c20.s8.t6.2
Dr. D. G. Dalgado of the Academy of Sciences, Lisbon, informed me (on 15 Feb. 1919) that he could find no Portuguese State-paper relating to Shivaji in the Lisbon Archives he had consulted.
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134. *Colleccao de Tratados* by J. F. Biker, tomo iv. (Lisbon, 1884.) Contains treaties and diplomatic correspondence. They were first printed in the Government Bulletin of Goa, which I inspected during my visit to Goa in October 1924.
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135. *Portugueses e Maratas*, i. Shivaji, by Panduranga Pissurlencar, (reprinted from the Boletim do Instituto Vasco da Gama. The fullest and most scholarly work on the Portuguese relations with Shivaji. Supersedes all other works on the subject.