Shivaji and His Times c13.s3.4

c13.s3.4

But his revenge had yet to be gratified against his late master. In his private audiences with Shivaji, Raghunath constantly described the vast extent and riches of the Karnatak kingdom left by his father to Vyankoji, and the ease with which it could be conquered, and urged the king to claim his lawful share of this patrimony from his half-brother. The great local knowledge and influence of the Hanumante family he promised to place at Shivaji’s service in effecting its conquest. It is very doubtful whether Shivaji would, of himself, have cared to assert his right to his father’s Karnatak territory. He certainly did not need it. As he rightly said on his death-bed, “I received [from my father] the Puna territory worth only 40,000 *hun*, but I have won a kingdom yielding one *krore* of *hun*." (Sabh. 104.)*