wood. The Marathas continued the pursuit in the darkness and captured from him 500 horses, 20 camels, two elephants, and many oxen, tents and war drums. The Khan fled with a broken remnant of only 100 cavalry to the town of Bowanigiri, 22 miles southwards, on the Vellar river, still pursued by the enemy.
But the fort of Tiruvadi continued to hold out under Sher Khan's father-in-law. Leaving Babo Sahib, Savanumwar (?) and some of Nasir Muhammad's horse to invest the place, Shivaji himself encamped three miles south of Tevenapatam, while a party of his cavalry was pushed up towards Bowanigiri. Thither Shiva went in person about the middle of July, to make an end of Sher Khan. Here he received Nellor Ramana, an envoy of the English factory of Madras, who presented him with a second supply of "Maldiva cocoanuts, beazar, and cordial stones and other sorts of good counter-poisons," which the Rajah had solicited from Madras.*[1]
§11. Shivaji marches south towards Tanjore.
Then after a time, he marched south across the Vellar and cantoned his army for the rainy season at Tirumalavadi, on the north bank of the Kolerun
- ↑ * Contest with Sher Khan: Factory Records, Fort St. George, Vol. 27. "Letter from our Brahman Wardapa from Shivaji Raja's camp, 27 June, 1677." "Letter from our Brahman Nellor Ramana from Shivaji Raja's army, 16 July." Also Z. C.
