[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Administrative System of the Marathas](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923) › c19.s3.t6.4 # Administrative System of the Marathas c19.s3.t6.4 Administrative System of the Marathas c19.s3.t6.4 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s3.t6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c19.s3.t6.4) Although the parties signed a Rajinama to abide by the evidence of the Pandhar, and furnished security for their obedience, the defeated party might claim a fresh decision by ordeal and if one ordeal failed he could ask for a trial by an ordeal of a different sort. Sometimes he changed his mind about the selection of ordeal before the first proposed by him had been tried. How much indulgence was given to a Maratha suitor, in order that he might be satisfied that no injustice had been done to him, and how often he changed his mind can be shown by a document quoted by Mr. Bhaskar Vaman Bhat in the Tritiya Sammelan Vritta of Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal.¹³ "Upon that, on the second day Somaji refusing the decision of the \*gots\* demanded an ordeal by water. He said that the man drawn by hand out of the water by the Pandhri should be regarded as in the right. When you were asked whether you were willing to undergo that ordeal you answered in the affirmative. The next day he changed his mind, refused the ordeal by water and suggested that the case should be decided by an oath in the mosque at Kasba Ranjangaon; on the third day he rejected the idea of an oath in the mosque and again demanded an ordeal by water. Then it was ordered that the plaintiff and the defendant should pour water over each other's hands. He who would pass this ordeal should enjoy the watan. Somaji rejected this proposal also and prayed for an ordeal by fire." - [Previous: c19.s3.t6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c19.s3.t6.3) - [Next: c19.s3.t6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c19.s3.t6.5) - [Up: c19.s3.t6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c19.s3.t6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c19.s3.t6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c19.s3.t6.4) · Pramāṇa