Original sentence: An intelligence dispatch of the East India Company dated 28 November 1659 reports: "Sevagy (Shivaji), a great rashpoote (Rajput) issues forth from his fort Rayguhr (Raigad) to strike blows on the Emperor, Duccan, Golconda and the Portuguese.Bhushan the Hindi poet speaks of the Bhosales being Rajput.He claimed that though Shivaji's ancestors did come from the family of Ranas of Chittor, they descended through an illegitimate offspring Dilip Singh.In a poem on Shahaji, Jayarama mentions that Shahaji was descended from Dalip (or Dilip Singh) born in the family of the Rana who was the foremost among all kings of the earth.James Tod and Ojha, who had access to the Rajput records, claimed that as per those records there is a mention of the Bhosles descending from Ajay Singh, the uncle of Vir Hammir.Jayaramas poetry was composed much before Shivajis coronation.Khafi Khan was a very harsh critic of Shivaji, and wrote accounts condemming Shivaji to hell.Parnalaparvata Grahanakhyana states that Shivaji is a Sisodia.Radha Madhava Vilasa Champu of poet Jayarama (written in the court of Shahaji at Banglur, 1654) describes the Bhonsles as the descendants from the Sisodias of Chittor.Shahji in his letter to the Sultan Adilshah states he is a Rajput.Shivabharata of Paramananda mentions that Shivaji and Shahji are of the Ikshvaku lineage like the Sisodiyas.Some of the historical accounts stating that Shahaji and Shivaji were of Rajput descent include:.The Mughal historian Khafi Khan describes Shivaji as a descendent of the Ranas of Chittor.This Dalip was a grandson of Lakshmanasen, Rana of Chittor, who came to the throne in 1303 CE