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True Valor
The legend says a goddess put a sword in his hands. The record says there may be three of them, and nobody is certain which is which.
The legend says a goddess put a sword in his hands.
The record says there may be three of them, and nobody is certain which is which.
Long before he was Chhatrapati, Shivaji Bhosale was devoted to one goddess above all others.
This was before the Maratha kingdom existed as anything but an idea he carried, through years of hit-and-run war against Bijapur and the Mughals.
Tulja Bhavani, enshrined at Tuljapur. His kul-daivat, his family's own chosen form of the divine.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.