[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.s8.3 # Shivaji and His Times c14.s8.3 Shivaji and His Times c14.s8.3 - **Language:** English ### [c14.s8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c14.s8.3) Shivaji tried hard to conciliate and reason with Shambhu. He appealed to all the nobler instincts of the prince as well as to his self-interest, read him many a lecture, showed him his treasury, revenue returns, list of forts and muster-rolls of troops and horses, and urged him to be worthy of such a splendid heritage and to be true to all the high hopes which he own reign had raised in the Hindu world. (Sabh. 94.) But a born judge of character like Shivaji must have soon perceived that his sermons were falling on deaf ears, and hence his last days were clouded by despair. (Sabh. 102-103.) - [Previous: c14.s8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c14.s8.2) - [Next: c14.s8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c14.s8.4) - [Up: c14.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c14.s8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c14.s8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c14.s8.3) · Pramāṇa