The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c7.s6.94

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Sháhji then went off to Máhuli, and from thence to Muranjan¹ where Khán Zamán followed him. Sháhji sent a part of his baggage and abandoned the rest, and the Imperial army overtook a number of his followers and put them to the sword. Sháhji again got off to Máhuli hoping to get away by Trimbak and Tringalwari, but found it best to stay at Máhuli and stand a siege with the best of his followers, disbanding the rest. His son was with him in the fort. Khán Zamán came up very soon and opened his trenches and a few days afterwards Randaula joined him. Sháhji soon began to treat, and after much fencing when the final attack was near, came out, met Randaula halfway down the hill and surrendered.² It is not stated how long the chase or the siege lasted, but this sort of warfare might have gone on for years. When the Emperor of Delhi had made peace with Bijápur there was no longer any excuse for Sháhji's resistance, and he entered into the service of Bijápur.³ Before this the forts of Kolába, Suvarndurg, Anjanvel, Jaygad, Ratnágiri, and Vijaydurg had been built, but they were all apparently of little importance till enlarged and strengthened by Shiváji.⁴