Shivaji and His Times c5.s1.4

c5.s1.4

Maloji wisely spent a portion of his treasure trove in building temples, giving alms to Brahmans, and excavating a large tank on the Shambhu Mahadev hill, in the Satara district, which was a great boon to the tens of thousands of pilgrims who annually flocked to that shrine. These pious investments of his money brought him a good return by raising him immensely in social esteem When he died, the family contingent of troops,—now greatly increased in number from the original thousand men,—was commanded in the Nizam-Shahi service by his younger brother Vitoji, and after Vitoji's death (probably in 1623), by Shahji, the eldest son of Maloji.*