Shivaji and His Times c8.s30.9

c8.s30.9

He spread a false report that Shambhuji had died, and even went into mourning for him. Then, when the suspicion of the Mughal officers along the Deccan road had been thus lulled asleep, and some months had elapsed, he wrote to Mathura for his son, and the three brothers with their whole family migrated to Maharashtra, bringing Shambhuji disguised as a Brahman kinsman, with them.