[3] The first hereditary recipient of the title 'Pratinidhi', meaning 'the representative of the king' or viceroy, was Parshuram Trimbak Pant, who was a recorder and interpreter at the court of Shivaji.

[4] Parshuram Trimbak was born in 1660 in Kanhai village in a Deshastha Brahmin family.

His father Trimbak Krishna was a devotional and pious village officer of Kanhai.

[2] Parashuram started his career as a clerk, but his abilities and valour enabled him, during the reign of Rajaram, to repel the attacks of the Mughal emperor in Maharashtra.

He had already been a nobleman but in view of his meritorious services, Rajaram conferred upon him the title of Pratinidhi, after the death of Pralhad Niraji, the first holder of the office.