Putalabai
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Putalabai was the third queen of Shivaji. Putalabai was married to Shivaji in the year 1653 . She was from the Palkar family and related to Netaji Palkar
Netaji Palkar
Netaji Palkar was the second Sarnaubat in the army of Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha empire in western India.-Family history:...

 

Putalabai was the eldest of the surviving wives of Shivaji. Being childless she became a sati
Sati (practice)
For other uses, see Sati .Satī was a religious funeral practice among some Indian communities in which a recently widowed woman either voluntarily or by use of force and coercion would have immolated herself on her husband’s funeral pyre...

by jumping in the funeral pyre of Shivaji.
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