Shri Shiv Chatrapati Caritr 1.13.7

1.13.7

The Marathas fought as neplus ultra. (They) killed three thousand Mughals, took three to four thousand horses. Two Mughal wazirs were captured. They came after winning a victory in this manner. After this Jagjivan the son of Udaram, a wazir of the Mughals, and Ray Bagin, Udaram's wife came with (other ?) Sardars and five thousand Mughals to Umbarkhindi. They were beaten back. Ray Bagin was besieged. Then she begged for an (haul) assurance of safety declaring herself to be a child of the Raje, holding grass in her teeth. Then the Raje gave her a haul (a safeguard), released her on her professing helplessness and came back to Rajgad. The spoils of Surat being calculated (it was found) that in all goods worth five krors of Hons had been brought. Four thousand horses had been seized, a cavalry force was organised with them. As the distinctive mark of this force, a quadrangular sign was branded on the right buttock of the horses. Such marks of recognition having been put, all the Adilsahi and Nizamsahi forts that (still) remained in the country were then captured. Forts were built on some rocks at impregnable places. New forts were constructed at villages at various places in the country. Realising that territories are kept under control by means of forts (he) built them, and in the Konkan conquered the country as far as Kalyan, Bhivandi and Raja-pur.