Shivaji and His Times c6.s1.4

c6.s1.4

Aurangzib's letters to Nasiri Khan and other officers breathed fury and revenge; they must beat the raiders back from the imperial dominions and make reprisals by entering Shiva’s land from all sides, “wasting the villages, slaying the people without pity, and plundering them to the extreme”; Shivaji’s possessions, Puna and Chakan, must be utterly ruined, and not the least remissness shown in slaying and enslaving the people; the village headmen and peasants of the imperial territory who had secretly abetted the enemy, must be slain without pity. (*Adab.* 147*a* and *b*, 148*a*.)