Shivaji and His Times c9.s2.40

c9.s2.40

∗ The Maratha achievements in this paragraph and the next two are ascribed to Hansaji Mohite by both Sabhasad and Chitnis. But Narayan Shenvi, writing from Raigarh, only a month later, on information supplied by Shiva's ministers, states that it was Anand Rao who rallied the Maratha army after the fall of Pratap Rao, and was the leader in all these campaigns. Jedhe supports him, and I have followed these original authorities. The place of Pratap Rao's death is called Jesari (a misreading for Nesari) in Sabhasad and Nioti in Jedhe, and described as situated in the Panhala district. This Nesari lies 45 m.s. of Kolhapur, in the Garh-Hinglaj sub-division of the Kolhapur State, one mile north of the Ghatprabha river, and 11 miles south of Garh-Hinglaj town. [Degree sheet 47 L.] There is "a narrow passage between two hills" near it. There is another Nesari,