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No one sold their mansions or manors for any of Shivaji's forts! The chieftains and officials of Raja Shivaji built the arches of bravery and sacrifice. They did not build palaces of diamonds in corrupt ways!
—Vishwas Patil
Some scholars and #enthusiastic storytellers make statements like, "For this fort of Shivaji or for that fort, they sold their mansions. They mortgaged the jewelry of their own wife." They do not realize that by these decorated false statements we are insulting our beloved #King_Shivaji.
Each and every wall of that fort was so huge and magnificent that even if a hundred such mansions were sold, not even one wall of the fort could be built for that amount.
I do not understand why such ignorant bards make such colorful claims in the absence of any #contemporary, first-hand evidence. According to the records of that time, the construction of such a large, world-famous and expensive #Taj_Mahal on the banks of the Yamuna cost 16 lakhs.
According to an authentic letter of Shivraya, he has listed a total of 1.75 lakhs on the construction and reconstruction of his forts. Raigad was an ancient fort with other names i.e Rairi, etc. There is a documentary record that during the reconstruction of Raigad, Maharaj spent 35 thousand hons on the making of various buildings, temples, courts etc. atop the fort and fifteen thousand on walls and ramparts.
But considering the sixteen lakhs of grandiose constructions of that time like the Taj Mahal, these figures of Shivaji Raja's era are also huge.
He had selected all the chieftains and officials on the highest test of honesty and selfless service of "Swarajya". None of them had their own private business like shipyards or foreign trade at that time. Therefore, what would be the cost of the mansions they built? A video of a scholar is available on YouTube claiming that when Maharaj went on a campaign to Agra, one of his servants completed the construction of Sindhudurg Fort in Shivaji Raje's absence within a period of 2-3 years. Apparently he sold his wife's jewelry for this construction. All this fantasy is completely baseless and faraway from the truth.
Because during the Swarajya period, Maratha women did not wear necklaces adorned with emeralds and rubies. The denizens led a very simple, poor and honest life. And, where did Maharaj spend three or four years on the Agra campaign? He left on March 5, 1666 and returned to Rajgad on November 22 of the same year. How could Sindhudurg be completed in such a short span of time?
Shivaji's officers and chieftains were good, honest and service-minded people. But there is no need to elevate the chieftains' and highranking officials of Raja Shivaji with such concocted cock and bull stories. If Maharaj's officers and chieftains or soldiers had amassed so much personal wealth, then the wrong interpretation would be created that the supporters of Maharaj were dishonest.
There is no doubt that Heroji Indulkar was “ready to serve Swarajya and Shivraya". But the stories that he or anyone else sold their mansions for the construction of Shivaji Raja's fort are completely false, fabricated and baseless. Instead, the truth is that all these associates of Shivaji had built the golden arch of Shivaji's era with their blood, sweat, tears, penance and sacrifice.
– Vishwas Patil.
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