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SECOND FAILURE AT SHIVNER.
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Vidyanagar (? old Vijaynagar), and Bundikot (? Gudicota, 45 miles e. of Harpan-halli.) This country was now formed into a regular province
of Shivaji's kingdom and placed under Janardan Narayan Hanumante as viceroy.* [1]
In the meantime, a few days after Shivaji's return to Panhala, his troops attacked Mungi-Pattan, on the Godavari, 30 miles south of Aurangabad. (M. A. 166.) It was probably next month that they made a second attempt to get possession of Shivner. They invested the village (of Junnar) at its foot, and at night tried to scale the fort. "Three hundred Marathas climbed the fort-walls at night by means of nooses and rope-ladders. But Abdul Aziz Khan was an expert qiladar. Though he had sent away
- ↑ * The Mianas : Sabh. 80-81 ; Chit. 142, 146, 179; Dig. 285, 339; T.S. 33a & o; B.S. 406 (one sentence only.) Dig. 335 speaks of a Yusuf Khan Miana. Is it a misreading of Husain (Isab for Hasen)? Sabh. B.S. and T. S. place the Maratha expansion into the Kopal district before, and Ch : tnis and Dig. after, Shivaji's invasion of the Karnatak. The latter view is more probable. The conquest and consolidation must have taken more expeditions than one and a pretty long time. The narrative in Chit. 179 and Dig. 285-287 seems to me to be confused and unreliable. Z. C. asserts that in January 1677 Hambir Rao defeated Husain Khan near Yelgedla (?=Yelburga) in the Gadag district and took 2,000 horses and some elephants from him; in May 1678, Shiva ji after gaining the Gadag district returned to Raigarh in March 1679 Moro Pant, by sending back the captive son of Husain Khan, secured the fort of Kopal; he released Husain Khan, who now entered his service.
