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{{Infobox royalty
| death_date = 1681 CE
| spouse = [[Shivaji Maharaj]]
}}

'''Soyarabai''' Bhonsle (née Mohite) (died 1681) was one of the wives of [[Shivaji]], the founder of Maratha Kingdom in western [[India]]. She was mother of Shivaji's second son, [[Rajaram Chhatrapati]]. She was the younger sister of Maratha army chief [[Hambirrao Mohite]].

==Early life==
Born Soyarabai Mohite, she was married to Shivaji at a very young age in 1659. The marriage took place when Shivaji visited his father [[Shahaji]] at [[Bangalore]] with his mother [[Jijabai]]. Tukabai(Née Mohite), the stepmother of Shivaji and paternal aunt of Soyarabai insisted on the marriage.

After the death of [[Jijabai]] in (1674), Soyarabai gained prominence in Shivaji's family and by extension, in the Maratha court politics.<ref name="Vaidya2000">{{cite book | author=Sushila Vaidya | title=Role of women in Maratha politics, 1620-1752 A.D. | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wVNuAAAAMAAJ | accessdate=6 March 2012 | date=1 January 2000 | publisher=Sharada Pub. House | isbn=978-81-85616-67-4}}</ref> Soyrabai bore two children to Shivaji, a daughter Balibai and son Rajaram.

==After Shivaji's death==
After Shivaji's death in 1680, with the help of some of the courtiers, Soyarabai got her ten-year-old son, [[Rajaram Chhatrapati|Rajaram]], on the vacant throne. Her stepson and [[heir presumptive]] [[Sambhaji]], was able to thwart this with the help of Soyrabai's own brother,and army chief [[Hambirrao Mohite]]. He imprisoned Soyarabai and Rajaram and formally assumed power as the Chhatrapati on July 20, 1680.
After Sambhaji seized power from Soyrabai, she tried every means to dethrone him.<ref name="Jaswant2005">{{cite book|author=Jaswant Lal Mehta|title=Advanced study in the history of modern India 1707-1813|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d1wUgKKzawoC&pg=PA48|accessdate=6 March 2012|date=1 January 2005|publisher=Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd|isbn=978-1-932705-54-6|page= 48 }}</ref> Soyarabai's henchmen tried to poison Sambhaji in August 1681, but he survived. When he learnt about the plot, he had Soyarabai poisoned to death. Many plotters including Soyarabai's relatives of the Mohite family were also slaughtered or trampled by the elephants.<ref name="Jaswant2005"/>

==References==
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[[Category:1680 deaths]]
[[Category:Indian murder victims]]
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