New History of the Marathas v1.c6.58

v1.c6.58

Shahji's marriage with Jija Bai, however, did not prove a source of conjugal felicity. The desertion of Jija Bai's father to the Mughals only served to widen the gulf between the two families. Shahji later took a second wife from the Mohite family of Supa and Jija Bai came to be practically neglected by her husband. Parmananda, the author of *Shiva-Bharat*, says that Jija Bai bore six sons to Shahji of which only two Sambhaji and Shivāji grew up to manhood, the others dying in infancy.⁸ Sambhaji is said to have been born in 1619 when Shahji was 25 years old.