Shivaji and His Times c14.s2.4

c14.s2.4

∗ I have here followed Jedhe with a few points from T. S., 33a. These two works call the victor Bahir Rao, while Sabhasad and Malkaré call him Hambir Rao. (In bad MSS. Hambir may be read as Bahir, but in January 1677 Hambir Rao was on the march to Haidarabad with Shivaji.) The place of battle is put by Jedhe 'near Yelgedla', which I emend into Yelburga (30 m. n. e. of Gadag, now in the Lingasagar district), and not into Yelagi (20 m. south of Belgaum.) T. S. says that Husain Khan was the "sardar of Kukanur",—a city 15 m. north of Kopal, and that Bahir Rao fell in the battle and Husain, out of wounded honour, took poison on being set free by Shivaji (which is not historically true.) Sabhasad, 80—81, places the battle in Sampgaon. B. S. 451 merely says that Shiva imprisoned Husain Khan by deception.