Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Gaga Bhatt" in English language version.
(190,191)Another concern was an ancestry problem that threatened to derail his coronation. Shivaji was not a Kshatriya as required by classical political thought. This proved not to be insuperable, however. Shivaji postponed the coronation until 1674 and hired Gaga Bhatt, a celebrated pandit, who was able to trace the Maratha King's ancestry back to the Sisodiayas of Mewar...
marathas not being accounted as of kshatriya status, a bogus genealogy had to be fabricated