Administrative System of the Marathas c20.s9: 13. Leave for Religious Duties
Administrative System of the Marathas c20.s9
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13. Leave for Religious Duties
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The Maratha prisoners sometimes got leave for going home to perform some religious ceremonies like the Shradh of dead parents, marriage of grown-up daughters, and the sacred thread ceremony of grown-up sons, which the Peshwa as the ecclesiastical head could not permit to be neglected. In 1760-61 Govind Rao Apaji, was released from his prison at fort Chandvad, as his two daughters were ten and eleven years old and could not be kept unmarried any longer, and for the marriage expenses, an order was issued to give him in cash or in ornaments Rs. 1,000 out of his family estate which was probably confiscated by the government.³¹ In 1776-77, the wife and son of Trimbak Ganesh Bhat, then imprisoned at Ratnagiri, were released for the performance of the sacred thread ceremony of the boy.³² They were however to come back to their prison after the ceremony was over. In the same year Dhondo Gopal Kelkar, an adherent of the pretender, died in his prison at fort Ghangad. His wife was imprisoned at Ratnagiri. Order was issued to release her for the performance of the Shradh ceremony of her dead husband.³³
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³¹ P. D., Vol. II, p. 76.
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³² P. D., Vol. VIII, p. 141.
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³³ P. D., Vol. VIII, p. 142.