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1675] no great opposition seized upon Supa and Whurwa ( ?) belonging to the Rajah." But Khizr Khan Pani and the desais in concert attacked the Maratha garrisons there, killed 300 of the men and recovered both the places. A party of Marathas that was posted at Burbulle [Varhulli, 7 miles south of Ankola] to take custom duty on all goods passing that way, was now forced to withdraw (August 1675.) (F. R. Surat 88,Rajapur to Surat, 27th August 1675.)

The dowager Rani of Bednur had quarrelled with her colleague Timmaya, but had been compelled to make peace with him (August), she being a mere cypher, while he held the real power of the State. The Rani then appealed to Shivaji for protection, agreed to pay him an annual tribute, and admitted a Maratha resident at her Court. (Ibid, and Chit. 70.)

The dalvi, or lieutenant of the desai who had been the local Bijapuri governor of North Kanara, had aided Shivaji in the conquest of that district. But now (1675), disgusted with him, the dalvi was moving about the country with a force, saying that he would restore his former master. He attacked Shivajis guards in Karwar town and forced them to retire to the castle. The people were in extreme misery in Shivaji' s new conquests: he squeezed the desais, who in their turn squeezed the ryots. (Bom. Gaz. xv. Pt. i, 128.) But Bijapur was now in the grip of a civil war, the Adil-Shahi State was hastening to a dissolution, and Shivaji's possession of South