Shivaji and His Times c8.s19.21

c8.s19.21

In the course of the next two days the wooden structure was completed and two small pieces of cannon were mounted on it. The enemy, unable to reply to this fire from a superior height, evacuated the Black Tower and another bastion near it and took refuge in a stockade adjoining the wall of the tower. But they could not show their heads. The stockade was untenable, and they retired to the trenches behind it. (Ben. MS. 187b—189a.) Thus five towers and one stockade of the lower fort fell into the hands of the Mughals.