Administrative System of the Marathas c19.s3.24

c19.s3.24

That their evidence had very great weight and was considered essentially necessary will be found at a glance at the list of witnesses still preserved for us in the old records. Here we shall give three lists only. In a dispute (1749-50)¹⁰ regarding the Joshi and Kulkarni watans of Jalgaon in Pargana Supa and Jalgaon in Tarf Karhepathar in Prant Poona, Dado Shivdev, the defendant, signed a Rajinama, or agreement to abide by the decision (literally evidence) of the Pandhar of the villages in question.