Shivaji and His Times c5.s3.5

c5.s3.5

(ii) He first captured one or two obscure or out of repair forts in the western side of the Puna district, in the neglected and unsubdued new frontier of the Bijapur State, from 1646 to his father's arrest (25 July 1648); the arrest was due to a cause quite unconnected with the son's usurpations and was ended by other means than Shivaji's restoration of forts to Adil Shah.