Shivaji and His Times c5.s6.19

c5.s6.19

This was Shivaji's opportunity. Even before the death of Dadaji, he had begun his annexations. About 1646 he had taken Torna fort from its Bijapuri commandant by some cunning device without fighting. Here he found Government treasure amounting to 2 lakhs of hun. The captured fort was newly named Prachandgarh, a name which it soon lost. Five miles east of it, on the crest of the same spur of hills, he built a new fort named Rajgarh, with three walled redoubts (machi) on the successive terraces of the hill-side. (T. S. 12b; Sabh. 9.)