Shivaji and His Times c11.s2.10

c11.s2.10

On 1st March 1663, Ali Adil Shah II., with all his Court, left his capital for Bankapur.* There they were at first denied entrance by the mother of Abdur Rahim Bahlol Khan, in whose fief it lay. But the gates were soon opened to the king. Adil Shah summoned Bahlol Khan, Shahji and other officers from the Karnatak, who came by forced marches and waited on the king on the bank of the Warda (an affluent of the Tungabhadra.) Bahlol and Shahji were at once arrested and placed in chains (end of June 1663), but Shahji was released in two days, though he continued to be deprived of his command for some time. The Bijapuri invasion of Kanara had already begun. (*F. R. Surat* 103, Gyffard to Surat, 8th April and 20th July 1663.)