Shivaji and His Times c10.s5.10

c10.s5.10

By this time it was eight o'clock in the morning. The English ambassador, Henry Oxinden, was now presented by Niraji Pant. He bowed from a distance, and his interpreter Narayan Shenvi held up a diamond ring as an offering from the English to the Rajah. Shivaji took notice of the strangers and ordered them to come to the foot of the throne, invested them with robes of honour, and then sent them back.