carry on their faces the suggestion that they were composed after the intellectual brilliancy caused by the Peshwas' rule had passed away, and before the rise of the modern school of sound and critical
Marathi historians under Khare and Sane, Rajwade and Sardesai. I hazard a guess that they were written between 1820 and 1840 or '50, — though the kernel of some of them (almost equally legendary or
inaccurate) may have been put down in writing about 1770-1790.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
A- Marathi.
101. Shioa-chhatrapati-chen Charitra by Krishnaji Anant Sabhasad, written m 1694 at Jinji, by order of Raja Ram; ed. by K. N. Sane, 3rd ed. 1912. A small book of barely 100 pages, composed from memory without the help of written memoranda or documents. The events are not arranged in the order of time, and the frequent expression 'then' (pure) does not mean chronological sequence, as Mr. Rajwade was the first to point out. Some of the statements are incorrect. Weak in topography, no dates. Language very condensed and sometimes obscure.
But the most valuable Marathi account of Shivaji and our only source of information from the Maratha side. All later biographies in the same
