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∗ My account of this war is based upon Jai Singh's copious letters (Haft Anjuman, Benares and Paris MSS., with a few extra letters in Faiyyaz-ul-qawanin), Aurangzib's letters (given in Paris MS. Suppl 476, with two stray letters in a miscellaneous Delhi MS.) and certain other letters given in Khatut-i-Shivaji (R.A.S. MS.) Some of these have been translated by me in the Modern Review. A. N. 887-907, though contemporary and authentic, has no independent value after the use of the above materials. Storia, ii. 120-125, 132-137, gives Manucci's personal experience of the war. The Marathi chronicles, Sabh. 38-46, and Malkaré 49, contain later and partly legendary accounts.