Chatrapati Shivaji Charitra

SR No.: 034490
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vaman Sitaram Mukadam
Publisher: Vaman Sitaram Mukadam
Publication Year: 1934
Total Pages: 720
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Book_Gujarati
File Size: 45 MB

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In personal activity he exceeded all generals of whom there is record. For no partizen appropriated to service of detachment alone ever traversed as much ground as he at the head of armies. He met every emergency of peril, however sudden or extreme, with instant discernment and unshaken fortitude. The ablest of his officers acquiesced to the emminent superiority of his genius, and the boast of his soldier was to have seen Shivaji charging
sword in hand.
Mr. Orme. (Historical Fragments).
in
From an unknown petty chieftain he had become sovereign of a great portion of Western India, besides his possessions in the South. He had successfully braved the whole power of the Moghul Empire, and had taught his countrymen the secret of success those sudden predatory movements which, from the first blow struck against the Mahomedan power in the destruction of Afzul Khan and the army of Bijapur were in a hundred years to effect the total subversion of their Empire.
Col. Meadows Taylor. (Manual of History.)
countrymen and had down rules for their
Shivaji well knew the character of his carefully used that knowledge in laying Government. The Brahmanical creéd could not be used as a weapon of persecution but its mingled tolerance and exclusiveness, made it a powerful instrument for concentrating the religious feelings of the Hindus, and directing their full force against the cruel and bigotted oppression commanded by the Koran and practised by Aurungzeb.
Montgomery Martin. (History of India)
શ્રી છત્રપતિ શિવાજી મહારાજ શકતે યાંગે ચરિત્ર ગુજરાથી ભાખેત માઝે મિત્ર રા. રા. વામનરાવ મુકાદમ હૈ લિહીત આહેત હી માઠી આનંદાચી ગષ્ટ આડે. મુકાદમ હૈ મહારાષ્ટ્રીય અસલ્યાને ત્યાંસ મહારાષ્ટ્રડ્યા શ્રી શિવાજી સારખ્યા અદ્વિતીય રાષ્ટ્રવીરાચા યેાગ્ય અભિમાન સ્વાભાવિકપણે આવે. માંચે કાયમચે રાણે ગુજરાયેત અસલ્યાને... ગુજરાથી હી ત્યાંચી માયભાષાચ આવે. અશા યેાગ્ય પુરુષાચ્યા હાતૂન હૈ” ચરિત્ર ઉત્તમ વઢેલ યાંત શંકા નાહીં.