The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c7.s8.181

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The usual operations on the coast were continued notwithstanding Shiváji's absence. Moro Pant took 10,000 men against Janjira in August, and in October Sidi Sambhal set out on a cruise of retaliation. He burnt Jaytápur at the mouth of the Rájápur river in December 1676, but Rájápur itself was too well defended to be attacked, and in the meantime Moro Pant's attack on Janjira had been beaten off. In the following season, 1677-78, the Sidi's fleet plundered on the coast as usual, and finding little other pillage carried off numbers of the inhabitants as slaves. In revenge for this Shiváji on his return to the Konkan sent down ships and men in July 1678 to Panvel in order to burn the Musalmán fleets then in Bombay harbour, but not being able to get boats to cross they went up to Kalyán with the intention of passing by Thána into Bombay. This alarmed all parties, and the Portuguese Governor of the Bassein district anchored forty armed boats off Thána, which prevented any attempt being made there. The Maráthás thus baffled burnt some Portuguese villages, but were soon recalled to Ráygad. This complication was followed by a rupture between Shiváji's *subhedár* of Chaul and the Bombay Government, for the *subhedár* seized thirty Bombay boats in the Panvel and Nágothna rivers, most of which were retaken by some Europeans from Bombay. Shiváji however did not find it convenient to support his officer. While this had been going on, an attack on a larger scale than usual had been in progress at Janjira, but with the usual want of success.⁶