Shivaji and His Times c5.s4.13

c5.s4.13

In 1630 Shahji had plundered and seized the Nizam-Shahi country round Puna. Soon afterwards a Bijapuri army had looted and burnt Puna, Indapur and other villages of Shahji and "totally desolated them." (B. S. 287.) Next he had recovered possession of them by force. Then had followed the famine of 1630-1631, the most terrible in the sad history of the Deccan (Pad. i. A. 362.) The Junnar or North Puna tract was the scene of repeated Mughal invasions in 1634-'36. Khan-i-Zaman in the course of his campaign against Shahji (July—October 1636) penetrated to Puna, but there was probably nothing left for him to plunder or burn there. During the dissolution of the Ahmadnagar sultanate, a revenue accountant (deshpande) named Moro Tandev Honap, "a proud rebel, well acquainted with the country round the Bhima, had raised a tumult and seized the neighbourhood of Puna. All these disorders had devastated the whole kingdom from Ahmadnagar to the boundary of Wai and Shirwal." (T. S. 8a.)