Shivaji and His Times c6.s3.6

c6.s3.6

We may conveniently pause here and take note of the exact size of the infant Maratha kingdom. At the cautious outset of his independent career (1647-48), Shivaji's territory embraced most parts of his father's western jagir and his own early annexations from Bijapur. These together covered the southern half of the Puna district, and their northern boundary was the old Mughal frontier,—a line running diagonally from the north-western to near the south-eastern corner of that district and avoiding the Mughal forts at Junnar, Visapur, and Parnir; *i.e.*, for some distance the Ghod river divided the two dominions in the north; Junnar and Chamargunda belonged to the Mughals and Chakan to Shivaji. His southern boundary was marked by the outposts of Indapur and Baramati, and the forts of Rajgarh and Torna (and possibly also Kondana.)