A History of the Mahrattas v1.c11.62

v1.c11.62

A.D. 1656.—To secure access to his possessions on the banks of the Neera and Quyna, and to strengthen the defences of the Phar Ghaut, Sivajee pitched upon a high rock near the source of the Kistna, on which he resolved to erect another fort. The execution of the design was entrusted to a Deshist Bramin, named Moro Trimmul Pingley, who had been appointed a short time before to command the fort of Poorundhur. This man, when very young, accompanied his father, then in the service of Shahjee, to the Carnatic, whence he returned to the Mahratta country about the year 1653, and shortly after joined Sivajee. The able manner in which he executed everything entrusted to him, soon gained him the confidence of his master, and the erection of Pertabgurh,¹ the name given to the new fort, confirmed the favourable opinion entertained of him.