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340 presents worth 60 hun, with 3 yards of broad-cloth and 4 veece of sandal wood for Mahadji, in fear of his army "continuing now at 2 to 5 Gentu leagues from this place and like to do so yet [for] some time." On 25th May Shivaji wrote to thank them for the presents and to ask for a fresh supply, offering to pay for them; but the English merchants on 18th June gave him the presents at a cost of 52 hun to themselves. A Madras letter dated 19th June tells us that his men had already looted the English godown at Timmery in Vyankoji's territory to the value of 2,000 hun. (Records of Fort St. George: Diary and Consult., 1677, pp. 1 12-1 15 ; O. C. 4266.)

By means of Raghunath Narayan Hanumante, many of the local chieftains, great and small, of the Karnatak were won over and their possessions were peacefully occupied by Shivaji.

In this way the impregnable fortress of Jinji was secured, without a blow, from Rauf Khan and Nasir Muhammad Khan,* the sons of the late Bijapuri wazir