Shivaji and His Times c8.s27.5

c8.s27.5

∗ This view is supported by the Persian and English accounts, "Shiva cherished some absurd fancies and hopes. So,......after standing for a while, he created a scene, retired to a corner and told Kumar Ram Singh that he was disappointed, making unreasonable and foolish complaints." (A. N. 969.) "His spirit could not bear such humiliation as the other Umarahs to wait at a distance with their hands before them, like mutes. The thought thereof put him into a fever, which the king hearing (it is said) sent to comfort him with promises of great preferment." (Surat to Karwar, 8 June.) Also K. K.