Shivaji and His Times c8.s30.5

c8.s30.5

We have a characteristic anecdote about an incident during this journey. The story runs (Malkaré 54), that the pretended *sannyasis* one evening took refuge in the house of a peasant in a village on the Godavari. The old mother of the host apologized to the holy men for the poor fare placed before them, saying that the troopers of the brigand Shivaji had recently robbed the village. She cursed them and their master to her heart's content. Shivaji noted the names of the peasant and the village carefully, and on his return home, summoned the family of his host and gave them more than what they had lost in the raid.