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of this second sack of Surat. It is also mentioned in K. Anant Sabhāsad’s Bakhar (Mānkar’s trans., pp. 62, 63), where the pillage is described as lasting for two days, and the booty seized is said to have included ‘gold, silver, pearls, diamonds, rubies and other precious stones,’ besides ‘5 crores of hones (huns) and 4,000 horses.’ Professor J. Sarkar gives a clear account of the sack, and estimates the value of the loot seized by Sivājī at 66,00,000 rupees. (Shivaji and His Times, Calcutta (1919), pp. 220–6.)