A History of the Mahrattas v1.c15.6

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signalled the news by firing a thatched house (p. 190, post), and as Raigarh is invisible from Singarh, it seems certain that Sivājī was at Rājgarh, from which the flare would have been plainly seen. (See also Professor H. B. Limaye’s article in *Fergusson College Magazine*, February 1919, pp. 150–9.) Finally, on p. 54 of Mānkar’s translation of K. Anant Sabhāsad’s *Life of Sivājī*, 2nd ed., the following words occur : ‘ The fort was captured. He then set fire to the stables on the fort. The king saw the light from Rājgad and was pleased to find that the fort was taken.’ The capture of Singarh took place late in January (*Sarkar, Shivaji and His Times*, Calcutta (1919), p. 208).]