Indian Antiquary Vol 50

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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Sydney Owen of Oxford has drawn a brilliant sketch of Shivaji, in his India on the Owen's India on the ever
eve of the British conquest, but it is only a study of Shivaji's political eve of the British career. Pringle Kennedy has also given us a charming picture of conquest.
Kennedy Historvof Shivaji and Maharashtra in his History of the Great Moghuls. the Great Moghuls. But neither of these scholars studied the original documents. They relied mainly on such secondary authorities as Khafi Khan, Orme and Grant Duff, and their aim has been to write a readable and sensible summary for the general run of readers. From them, therefore, we should not expect anything that we do not get elsewhere-Maratha history had for them only a relative interest. Prof. J. N. Sarkar's articles in the Modern Review are important and interesting in
their own way. He has utilised many source of Maratha history Prof. J. N. Sarkar.
hitherto unexplored. His articles on Shivaji's navy are of special interest to us.8
A few articles were published in the Journal of the Bombay J. B. Br., R. A. S. Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. The following are the most useful
for our purpose : (1) Ranade-The currency system of the Marathas. (2) J. E. Abbott-A preliminary study of the Shivarai or Chhatrapati copper coins. (3) P. V. Mawji- Shivaji's Swarajya. (4) Codrington-Seals of the Satara kingdom.
So far as my information goes, no attempt has yet been made to sift and examine these scattered materials on scientific lines and to present the results in a handy and intelligible form to the ordinary student. No one will, however, contend that such an endeavour is not worth making. In the following pages it has been my aim to present a fairly accurate sketch of Shivaji's Government, its principle and working. It does not, however, claim to be complete and is by no means the last word on the subject.
(To be continued.)
MISCELLANEA. KRISHXARAJA OF THE BALSANA graphia Indica, vol. I, p. 341 respectively. In these TEMPLE INSCRIPTION.
two 'inscriptions Krishnarå ja of the Nikumbha Mr. R.D. Banerji in his Progress Report of the family is mentioned. From a list of the names of Archeological Survey of India, Western Circle, 1919, the family, we know that there were two Krishnapp. 45.46, mentions a Balsana Temple Inscription, råjas in that line. Inasmuch as all these three wherein is rocorded the repair of a royal matha on Inscriptions were found in the same district, and i the banks of a river in the Saka year 1106,' by the as the dates are not far removed, it seems illustrious Somehara who held Krishnaraja in the reasonable to identify Krishnaraja of the Balsana palm of his hands, by his personal and famous good inscription with the second of the kings of the qualities. He starts a rather long discussion same name of the Chalisgaon inscriptions. regarding the identification of this Krishna, In the Chalisgaon Inscription of Govana III (above whom he says he does not know from any vol. VII1, p. 39) where the construction of a temple other records. Mr. Banerji apparently loses sight of Siva is mentioned, the order for building the of two other inscriptions, found at Chalisgaon temple was given by Indraraja, father of Govana in the Khondesb district, where the Baleàna III, in the Saka year 1075. Wo, therefore, know that Teinple inscription was discovered. The former Indraråja was in that year on the throne. We also two inscriptions are referred to in Kielhorn's know from the Chalisgaon Inscriptions that Krieh. Southern List, Nos. 333 and 337; and they were pub.narâja II was the father of Indraraja. The period of Jished in this Journal, vol. VIII, p. 39, and in Epi. Krishnaraja's rule may have, therefore, extended
8 He has since then published them in book form and they will now be found in his Shivaji and his times,