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in the account of theMahrattas, he employed his younger brother, 

 Chimnajee Appa, in affairs of the greatest importance, for the 

 Rajah Saou Bhousela, the nominal sovereign of the Mahraltas: 

 armies were intrusted to his command ; and the country of the 

 Concan, with all the castles below the Gauls, which, under the 

 Mogul emperors, had been governed by the Abyssinian Yacoot 

 Khan, was submitted to his direction: while vested with this 

 authority he conquered Bassein from the Portugueze. 



Chimnajee, at his death, left one son, named Sudasew Row, 

 who afterwards became better known by the appellation of Bhaou. 

 Bajee-Row also dying, his son Ballejee-Row, generally called 

 Nanna, succeeded his father in the full possession of all his minis- 

 terial powers, as peshwa, while his cousin Bhaou remained in 

 obscurity. Ramchunder Baba, a brahmin of great abilities, who 

 had been closely connected with Chimnajee, saw and lamented the 

 fortune of his son. Influenced by his feelings, he waited on the 

 Rajah Saou Bhonsela, and by his representations to that prince, 

 procured a mandate, ordaining that Nana should have the supreme 

 direction of his affairs, in the manner of his father Badjee Row, 

 and that Bhaou should enjoy powers under him, similar to those of 

 Chimnajee: conformable to this resolution, the rajah confirmed 

 his appointment of the two cousins by a sirpaw to each; from 

 which lime Nana was considered as head purd/uui, and Bliadu as 

 dewan. 



After this event a long interval elapsed, in which, though 

 Nana behaved with the greatest circumspection and civility to his 

 new associate, yet Ramchunder, who had been the cause of 

 Bhaou's elevation, saw and dreaded latent jealousy: to evade the 



