presents worth 60 hun, with 3 yards of broad-cloth and 4 veece of sandal wood for Mahadji, in fear of his army "continuing now at 2 to 5 Gentu leagues from this place and like to do so yet [for] some time." On 25th May Shivaji wrote to thank them for the presents and to ask for a fresh supply, offering to pay for them; but the English merchants on 18th June gave him the presents at a cost of 52 hun to
themselves. A Madras letter dated 19th June tells us that his men had already looted the English godown at Timmery in Vyankoji's territory to the value of 2,000 hun. (Records of Fort St. George: Diary and
Consult., 1677, pp. 1 12-1 15 ; O. C. 4266.)
§9. Capture of Jinji.
By means of Raghunath Narayan Hanumante, many of the local chieftains, great and small, of the Karnatak were won over and their possessions were peacefully occupied by Shivaji.
In this way the impregnable fortress of Jinji was secured, without a blow, from Rauf Khan and Nasir Muhammad Khan,*[1] the sons of the late Bijapuri wazir
- ↑ * Sabh. 88-89. Duff calls them the sons of Ambar Khan, which is wrong. Dig, 305, names the qiladar Ambar Khan (T. S. giving Khawas Khan) and tells a long story about the fort being seized by treachery, which is unreliable and absolutely unsupported by any contemporary authority. The letter of a contemporary Jesuit priest of Madura says that "Shivaji fell upon the place like a thunderbolt and carried it at the first assault." (La Mission du Madure, as quoted in S. A. Gaz.
