New History of the Marathas v1.c9.33

v1.c9.33

Jāvli marked the first grand link in a chain of achievements which cover the second decade of Shivaji’s exploits and which brought him to the inescapable notice of the two great Powers then ruling in the Deccan, Bijapur and Delhi. A new personality representing the Mughal Empire had now come on the stage of history, Aurangzeb, the astute son of the declining Shah Jahan, a bigot in religion, who soon became an inveterate enemy of Shivaji.