Administrative System of the Marathas c26.s3.13

c26.s3.13

In the Kharepatan plates of Rattaraja (Shilahar)⁵ it is recorded that a village in the Ratnagiri District was granted to the king's preceptor, Abhoja Sambhu, and the grant is defined as pūrvvadatta devadāya vra (bra) hmadāya varjjaṁ which corresponds to Marathi kherij hakkadār karūṇ. Another donation of a Shilahara king, Bhoja II, by name⁶ was dhārā-pūrvvakaṁ analogous to Marathi dhārāika or dhārādatta and the terms of the grant are sarvva bādhā parihāraṁ sarvva-āya-viśuddhaṁ rājakīyānāṁ anaṅguli prekṣaṇīyam. These show that some of the terms we came across in Shahu's Sanad were already in use when the Rashtrakuta Chalukya and Shilahara princes inscribed those donatory plates. Let us now examine the copper plate inscriptions of the Yadavas and the Hindu-monarchs of Vijayanagar who in some respects can be regarded as the immediate Hindu predecessors of the Maratha kings of the house of Bhonsla.