Shivaji and His Times c5.s2.2

c5.s2.2

∗ The accounts of the family given in the Persian histories of Delhi and Bijapur have been summarized in my paper on the "Rise of Shahji" published in the *Modern Review*, Sept. 1917, (some of the dates of which require correction in the light of information from other sources.) The Marathi accounts given in Malkaré (Persian version in *Tarikh-i-Shivaji*) and very briefly in Sabhasad, have been utilized here to some extent. The exaggerations of Marathi Court-poets, in Sanskrit, have been rejected. Of the eight sons of Vitoji (the younger brother of Maloji I.) four are found in the Mughal service at the beginning of Shah Jahan's reign, viz., Kheloji, Parsuji, Maloji II and Mambaji. [Abdul Hamid, i.A.]