Shivaji and His Times c8.s29.12
Shivaji and His Times c8.s29.12
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smeared himself with ashes, and put on the disguise of sannyasis. "Travelling in the darkness of the night with swift Deccani couriers, who were practised in the art of moving in various disguises and assumed characters," he rapidly left the capital behind him. Forty or fifty of his servants accompanied him divided into three parties and dressed as monks of the three Hindu orders, Bairagis, Gosains, and Udasis. (K. K. ii. 200 and 217.)