Shivaji and His Times c11.s2.33

c11.s2.33

In their next encounter (Nov. 1664), Shivaji is said, in the Marathi accounts, to have defeated Khawas and forced him to retire from Konkan. He then burst into the district now called Savant-vadi, (between Ratnagiri and Goa), the numerous petty chieftains of which were feudatories of Bijapur. The greatest among them was Lakham Savant, the desai (chief) of Kudal, who had sided with the Bijapuri generals in these parts against Shivaji and was the first to feel Shivaji's wrath now. After resisting for a short time he escaped with his bare life into the forest, leaving his riches to the victor. Keshava Nayak and Keshava Prabhu of Pernem and Rawal Shenvi of Bicholim* next shared the same fate. All these defeated desais took refuge in Goa and lived there in misery, making frequent attempts to recover their own by raising troops and organizing expeditions from