Shivaji and His Times c5.s6.33

c5.s6.33

∗ The *Jedhe Shakavali* gives 16th May 1649 as the date of this release, but it is inconsistent with Murad's letters cited above, except on the suppositions that Shivaji never replied to Murad's repeated letters [as Rajwade imagines, ix. c. 4-5] and that the Mughal viceroy of the Deccan did not hear of Shahji's release at Bijapur for six months after the event, though Shahji was then the foremost Hindu noble of Bijapur! Therefore, either these Persian letters (preserved at Satara) were forgeries, or Jedhe's early dates are unreliable. I am inclined to place the event at the very end of the year 1649. The *Jedhe S.* says that the price of Shahji's freedom was the restoration of Kondana (*Shiva-bharat* adds, Bangalore also) to Adil Shah.