Shivaji and His Times c13.s2.11

c13.s2.11

For accomplishing this pious design, no better agent could be found than Shivaji, the ever-victorious captain and the sword-arm of the Hindu revival of that age. Madanna induced his master to agree to a joint enterprise with Shivaji, in which Qutb Shah, as the sleeping partner, would supply all the expenses and munitions of war, while the Maratha king, as the active partner, would do all the fighting with his own troops. Bijapuri Karnatak was to be conquered "in the name and for the benefit of the king of Golkonda," while Shivaji for his pains would get all the spoils of war and collections of blackmail as well as the territory in the uplands of Mysore.