# Shivaji crowned at Raigad
**रायगढ़ में शिवाजी का राज्याभिषेक**

- Canonical page: https://indianepics.online/event/shivaji-coronation/
- Chapter: [The Mughals and their rivals](https://indianepics.online/chapter/mughal.md)
- Track: evidence (archaeology and documents)
- When: 1674 CE
- Where: Raigad Fort, Maharashtra (18.23, 73.44)
- Tags: political, war

## Summary

Shivaji is crowned Chhatrapati at Raigad, making his Maratha state a sovereign kingdom outside the Mughal order.

रायगढ़ में शिवाजी का छत्रपति के रूप में राज्याभिषेक; मराठा राज्य मुग़ल व्यवस्था से बाहर एक संप्रभु राज्य बना।

## Account

The coronation on 6 June 1674 (Jyeshtha shuddha 13, Shaka 1596) was a legal act as much as a ceremony. Gaga Bhatt of Varanasi presided, after first affirming Shivaji's Kshatriya descent, and the new king began a regnal era of his own and struck coins in his name.

It turned the son of a Bijapur jagirdar into a sovereign who could grant land, take tribute and treat with the Mughals, Bijapur and the English as an equal. A second, Tantric coronation followed that autumn, after his mother Jijabai's death twelve days after the first was taken as an ill omen.

## Sources

- Sabhasad Bakhar (c. 1697) (Krishnaji Anant Sabhasad's chronicle, written for Rajaram)
- Gordon, The Marathas 1600-1818 (1993)

## Image

Raigad fort towers. rohit gowaikar, CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ARaigad_fort_towers.jpg

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