[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Shivaji and His Times](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919) › c14.s2.6 # Shivaji and His Times c14.s2.6 Shivaji and His Times c14.s2.6 - **Language:** English ### [c14.s2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c14.s2.6) Late in April 1678, Shivaji's troops plundered Mungi-Pattan, on the Godavari, 30 miles south of Aurangabad. (M. A. 166.) It was probably next month that they made a second attempt to get possession of Shivner. They invested the village (of Junnar) at its foot, and at night tried to scale the fort. "Three hundred Marathas climbed the fort-walls at night by means of nooses and rope-ladders. But Abdul Aziz Khan was an expert qiladar. Though he had sent away his sons and followers to reinforce the faujdar Yahiya Khan in the village, he personally with a few men slew all the infantry of Shiva who had entered the fort. Next morning he hunted out the few who had concealed themselves in the hill \[side\] below the fort and among rocks and holes, and released them with presents, sending a message to Shivaji to the effect, 'So long as I am qiladar, you will never take this fort.'" (Dil. 157.) - [Previous: c14.s2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c14.s2.5) - [Next: c14.s2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c14.s2.7) - [Up: c14.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c14.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c14.s2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c14.s2.6) · Pramāṇa