The Military System of the Marathas, with a Brief Account of Their Maritime Activities c5.3
The Military System of the Marathas, with a Brief Account of Their Maritime Activities c5.3
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¹ The Chinese pilgrim says of the people of Maharashtra: ‘The inhabitants were proud-spirited and warlike, grateful for favours and revengeful for wrongs; self-sacrificing towards supplicants in distress and sanguinary to death with any who treated them insultingly. Their martial heroes who led the rear of the army in battle went into conflict intoxicated, and their war elephants were also made drunk before an engagement’. Thomas Watters, *On Yuan Chwang*, Vol. II, p. 239.