Shivájí the Maráthá: His Life and Times |
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Afzal Khán Ahmadnagar army attack Aurangzeb Bájí ballad Bhavání Bhosle Bijápur blessing Bombay Brahmans Buddhist campaign captured cavalry central Dekhan Chákan Chalukyas Chandravelly chief Dádájí Dandá Rájpúrí Dasara Dekhan Delhi district English father force garrison gate Ghát ghorpad Golconda hand heart hills Hindu horse India jághír Jahán Jái Singh Janjirá Jávli Kafir Kalyán Karnátak Kháfí Khán Khán's King kingdom Konkan Krishná Kshattriya Lion's fortress Madha Mahommed Mahommedan Málojí Malusre Maráthá Maráthí poetry Mávlis Moghal Moro Pingle Moro Trimal Náthájí Pálkar nearly all military o'er officer Paithan Panálá Pandharpur Pár Patháns Peshwás plunder Poona Prabhu Pratapgad preter Prince Queen Jijábái raid Ráigad Rájá Rájput Ráma Rámdás Ránganá Rástikas rulers saith Tuka Sátára sent Sháh Sháhjí Shivájí of Junnar shrine Sidi Johár Sinhagad strongholds Surat surrendered sword Tánájí the Lion thee thou Torná treachery troops Tukárám tulwar Udai Bhán village Visapur Vishnu Vithobá Wái walls
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Page 11 - If one apply to them in difficulty they will forget to care for themselves in order to flee to his assistance. When they have an injury to avenge they never fail to give warning to their enemy ; after which each puts on. his cuirass and grasps his spear in his hand. In battle they pursue the fugitives but do not slay those who give themselves up. When a general has lost a battle, instead of punishing him corporally, they make him wear women's clothes, and by that force him to sacrifice his own life.
Page 52 - But he made it a rule that wherever his followers went plundering, they should do no harm to the mosques, the Book of God, or the women of any one. Whenever a copy of the sacred Kuran came into his hands, he treated it with respect, and gave it to some of his Musulman followers.
Page 52 - He laid down the rule that whenever a place was plundered, the goods of poor people, pul-siyah (copper money), and vessels of brass and copper, should belong to the man who found them; but other articles, gold and silver, coined or uncoined, gems, valuable stuffs and jewels, were not to belong to the finder, but were to be given up without the smallest deduction to the officers, and to be by them paid over to Sivaji's government.
Page 52 - Muhammadan were taken prisoners by his men, and they had no friend to protect them, he watched over them until their relations came with a suitable ransom to buy their liberty.
Page 11 - He was brought up at his father's jagir of Poona, where he was noted for his courage and shrewdness, while 'for craft and trickery he was reckoned a sharp son of the Devil, the Father of Fraud.' He mixed with the wild highlanders of the neighbouring Ghats, and listening to their native ballads and tales of adventure, soon fell in love with their free and reckless mode of life. If he did not join them in their robber raids, at least he hunted through their country, and learnt every turn and...
Page 12 - This was the beginning of that system of violence which he and his descendants have spread over the rest of the Kokan and all the territory of the Dakhin. Whenever he heard of a prosperous town, or of a district inhabited by thriving cultivators, he plundered it and took possession of it. Before...
Page 25 - Ambuscado, and with a smaller Shew in appearance than Abdul brought, waits his coming; who as soon as he spied him afar off, went forth to meet him, and prostrates himself before him with feigned Tears, craving Pardon for his Offence, and would not rise till he had assured him of his being his Advocate to procure it : Going to enter the Choultry together, he cries out, like a fearful Man, That his Lord (so he...
Page 11 - He was distinguished in his tribe for courage and intelligence ; and for craft and trickery he was reckoned a sharp son of the devil, the father of fraud. In that country, where...
Page 25 - Superstition, as the dying of an Elephant, and other bad presaging Omens, or they doubting the Integrity of Seva Gi, I know not), but they could not prevail : At the Day prefixed therefore he takes with him his Son and a selected Number, which he credited would not be out-equalled by Seva Gi, upon his former Protestations and Hopes of Reconcilement; but the Perfidious Man had placed an Ambuscado, and with a smaller Shew in appearance than Abdul brought, waits his coming; who as soon as he spied him...