Shri Shiv Chatrapati Caritr 25.1

25.1

[Grant Duff seems to have partly followed Chitnis. Sabhasad's account is rather obscure. It is difficult to understand why Sivaji should take Pantaji, his own envoy, into a private apartment and offer him money and rank for revealing the Khan's secret. Chitnis's version that Sivaji bribed Krshnaji Bhaskar is more rational.]