New History of the Marathas v1.c11.31

v1.c11.31

Backdoor influences were at the same time urging the Emperor to take that extreme step. Shaista Khan’s wife was bitter against Shivaji on account of the latter’s raid upon the Khan’s Camp at Poona. Aurangzeb’s maternal aunt was married to the Vazir Jafarkhan, to whom Shivaji once paid a visit to explain matters. But Jafarkhan’s wife prevailed upon her husband to dismiss Shivaji summarily, as she considered it dangerous to have in the house this dreadful devil, the perpetrator of that outrage against Shaista Khan as he was supposed to be able to take a sudden and long jump upon an adversary at a distance.