Shivaji and His Times c8.s2.8

c8.s2.8

I accept the English factory numbers,—15,000 besiegers and five or six thousand besieged,—as against the Marathi exaggeration of eighty thousand Bijapuris and sixty thousand Mavles. *Dilkasha*, i. 37, says that Shiva had only 3,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry when besieged in Panhala. Jauhar established his head-quarters at Kolhapur. The English factor Revington tried to sell him some ordnance and ammunition and personally took a mortar and some shells to Jauhar’s camp, early in April. He promised that these shells “would undoubtedly be the chiefest disturbers of the besieged.” But the mortar had not the desired effect at trial, and Jauhar refused to pay for the munitions, though the English traders continued, some at Panhala, others at Kolhapur as late as October 1660.