This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...The remainder he put to a more practical use, namely the fortification of Pratapgad-. The 'Mahableshwar Account, ' Parasnis MSS. See also Rao Bahadur D. B. Parasnis, Mahableshwar, p. 19. The rhyme 'Milale barabhai ani budali Chandra Rai' will be found in the Shedgavkar Bakhar. f I have followed the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...The remainder he put to a more practical use, namely the fortification of Pratapgad-. The 'Mahableshwar Account, ' Parasnis MSS. See also Rao Bahadur D. B. Parasnis, Mahableshwar, p. 19. The rhyme 'Milale barabhai ani budali Chandra Rai' will be found in the Shedgavkar Bakhar. f I have followed the Shedgavkar Bakhar here. Grant Duff makes Shivaji build Pratapgad temple later, see Grant Duff. Vol. 1, p. 204. I think that the former is right; otherwise Shivaji could not have worshipped Bhavani before the battle of Pratapgad. A tiny portion of More's treasure escaped Shivaji's observation. A number of gold coins had been concealed in an earthen pot and buried in a field in the Krishna valley. More than 250 years afterwards a cultivator accidentally unearthed the pot as he ploughed the field. He and his neighbours shared the coins among themselves. The find reached the ears of the Musulman chief constable of Panchgani. Unhappily for him he fell a victim to his own covetousness. Instead of reporting the matter to his superiors, he forced the villagers to surrender the treasure and thus misappropriated it to his own use. He was arrested. By a curious chance he was tried and convicted by the writer of these pages, then Sessions Judge of Satara, and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. A charming story has been preserved which explains his selection of Pratapgad rather than any of the other hills in the neighbourhood. It had been the practice of the Bhosle family to visit at least once a year the temple of Bhavani, or Parwati, at Tuljapur. After the vision in which she pointed out to Maloji the treasure from which the Bhosles' fortunes rose, she had become the special object of the family worship. But after Shivaji's rebellion it was no..
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