A History of the Mahrattas v1.c17.95

v1.c17.95

We may easily suppose that the inconveniences of this style of magnificence, of which all the Moghul camps in some degree partook, must have been already experienced by Sultan Mauzum during his campaign in the Concan. Whilst he lay at Walwa above the Ghauts, he took possession in the Emperor’s name of such parts of the country as he could cover, and deeds are yet extant, confirming in his own name grants of lands originally given by the Beejapoor government. In the month of October a pestilence broke out in his camp, which swept off many of his men and greatly diminished his force, but on receiving the Emperor’s orders to reduce the south-west districts above the Ghauts, formerly taken by Sivajee from Beejapoor, he advanced without hesitation for that purpose, and Azim Shah, who had commenced the war against Beejapoor with indifferent success, opened the campaign to the northward by laying siege to Sholapoor.