Shri Shiv Chatrapati Caritr 26: II.

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S. D. [156.] Abdul Khan had won distinction against the rebel Palegars of Karnatak. * * * * He came to Tuljapur by stages. It was his design to destroy the goddess of that place, — but she warned the priests in a dream, — "Abdul Khan is coming to defile me, therefore remove me to some other place." Thereupon the goddess was removed. When the Khan arrived, she was not to be found. On enquiry, he learnt that the goddess had fled. Thence the Khan marched to harass the god of Pandharpur and to demolish the temples of the Hindu gods. This was his life's ambition. But the priest learnt the Tuljapur affair and he too removed his god. [157] And he sent some Brahmans to the Maharaja with the following message, — "It is your fond ambition to establish the Hindu faith; but the king of the Yavanas has sent a general to punish you. He has oppressed in various manners the Hindus, Brahmanas and cows of Tuljapur and Pandharpur. If you can protect us from his tyranny, then alone will Hinduism prosper. Otherwise you will save your useless life, and like stale flowers, be a source of harm to the people. What shall we do in that case but commit suicide and throw upon you the sin thereof? But if this message fires you with rightful wrath, and you exert your valour and punish the Yavanas, a quarter of what virtue we have acquired in the past and may win in future by our religious performances will be yours: but for our sin we alone shall suffer.
[From the day of Abdul Khan's arrival at Wai, Visvas Rav Nanaji Prabhu, Musekhorekar, a Naik of five thousand Mawles, used to disguise himself as a Fakir and go to Abdul Khan's camp every night to beg alms. He used to inform the Maharaja of every design of Abdul Khan as soon as he learnt it. So the Maharaja came to know of the real motive of Abdul, p. 159.]
According to the author of Sivadigvijaya, Sivaji was accompanied by forty to fifty select companions, when he set out to meet Afzal or Abdul. The following officers are mentioned by name. (p. 166).
(1) Sambhaji Farzand. (2) Jiva Mahala. (3) Babu Savant (4) Mahadji Kank. (5) Yesji Kank. (6) Baloji Jagtap. (7) Hiroji Parzand. (8) Son Mahala (9) Niraji Savant. (10) Kavji Parzand.