Original sentence: Balaji Janardhan Bhanu was born in a Chitpavan Brahman family in Satara in 1742.He was nicknamed 'Nana' and rose to be the Phadnavis or the finance minister of the Peshwa ruler.In 1761, Nana escaped from the Third Battle of Panipat to Pune and rose to becoming the leading personage directing the affairs of the Maratha Confederacy, though never a soldier.It was the endeavour of Nana Phadnavis to hold together the confederacy in the teeth of both internal dissension and the growing power of the British.Nana Fadnavis (also Nana Phadanvis, February 12, 1742  - March 13, 1800) (originally Balaji Janardhan Bhanu) was a minister of the Maratha Empire during the Peshwa administration in Pune, India.Nana Phadnavis has been depicted in Vijay Tendulkar's Marathi play, Ghashiram Kotwal.This was a period when one Peshwa was rapidly succeeded by another, and there were many disputed successions
Edited sentence: He was born at Satara on the 4th of May 1741, and was the son of a Chitpavan Brahman, of the same caste as the Peshwa.His real name was Balaji Janardhan Bhanu; but, like many other Marathas, he was always known by a kind of nickname.Incidentally, the name is often spelled "Phadnavis".India at the end of the 18th century.It was the endeavour of Nana Farnavis to hold together the confederacy in the teeth of both internal dissension and the growing power of the British.Nana Fadnavis (also Nana Phadanvis, February 12, 1742 - March 13, 1800) was the great Maratha minister at Pune, Maharashtra.Nana escaped from the fatal Third Battle of Panipat (1761) and from about 1774 became the leading personage directing the affairs of the Maratha Confederacy, though never a soldier.Nana properly means a maternal grandfather; Phadnavis ("Ph" as in "Elephant") is the official title of the finance minister, derived from fard = an account and anvis = a writer.This was the period when one Peshwa was rapidly succeeded by another, and there was more than one disputed succession.Vijay Tendulkar's famous Marathi play, Ghashiram Kotwal (1972) is inspired by his life