Shivaji and His Times c6.s10.2

c6.s10.2

[^ *]: This was the appearance of Afzalpura when I visited it in Oct., 1916. The French traveller Abbe Carre, who visited the place in 1673, states that he found a large number of workmen engaged in cutting the stones which were to be used in the mausoleum of Afzal Khan, and he was "surprised [to note] that in the epitaph were mentioned the [200] women of his harem whose throats he had caused to be cut." [Voyage, ii. 16 and 11.]