[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937) › v4.c19.129 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.129 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.129 - **Language:** English ### [v4.c19.129](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.129) In 1678 the new Bījāpurī regent Sīdī Mas‘ūd made a pact with Shivājī for armed assistance in the event of a Mughul attack, and such assistance was most effectively given during the campaign against Bījāpur opened by Dilīr Khān in October, 1679. Shivājī, with a view to causing a diversion in Dilīr Khān’s rear, formed his men into two parallel divisions of nine to ten thousand horsemen each, and poured like a flood northwards from Selgūr through the districts of Mughul Deccan, burning and plundering. But between Jālna and Aurangābād he was attacked by an enterprising officer, Ranmast Khān, and forced to fight a rear-guard action, which detained him for three days, while reinforcements hastened up from Aurangābād to complete the circle round the Marāthās (\*c.\* 25 November). In the third night Shivājī, after losing 4000 men killed and abandoning all his booty and many horses, slipped out by an obscure path under the guidance of his head spy, and escaped to his own dominion by incessant marching for three more days and nights. Evidently these privations weakened his health, and on 2 April, 1680, he was seized with fever and blood dysentery, of which he died on the 14th, at the age of fifty-three. - [Previous: v4.c19.128](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.128) - [Next: v4.c19.130](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.130) - [Up: v4.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.129](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.129) · Pramāṇa