The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.231

v4.c19.231

For the assistance which he had rendered to Bījāpur Shivājī demanded the recognition by that state of his sovereignty in the districts of Koppal and Bellary and in all the territory which he had conquered in the Carnatic, and when Mas‘ūd Khān had complied with his demand he secretly visited him in the neighbourhood of Bījāpur and took counsel with him on the subject of the further resistance to be offered to the imperial troops. In April Shivājī fell sick at Rāigarh, and died on 2 April, 1680. He was in his fifty-third year.