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376 movements from 4th November, 1679, when he marched out to raid the Mughal dominions in order to create a diversion for the relief of Bijapur. The campaign was not an unbroken success for him. As the Bombay Council wrote on 1st. Jan., 1680, "He hath both lost and gained." Near Bijapur he was attacked (middle of November) and utterly routed by Dilir Khan, who captured from him 2,000 horses, besides prisoners. The defeated Rajah fled to Pattagarh* (Vishram-garh) with only 500 cavalry, having lost the greater part of his army, and summoned Moro Trimbak and Annaji Datto to a council of war there. The Peshwa had himself just suffered a reverse in advancing towards Surat; he had been defeated and driven back by Ranmast Khan, a Pathan general, with the loss of 2,000 men killed and 400 horses captured. (F. R. Surat, 108. Bom. to Surat, 29 Nov., 1679.)

As Dilir Khan was advancing westwards from Bijapur (middle of November) and seemed intent on laying siege to Panhala, and the presence of Shambhuji in the enemy's camp threatened a civil war in the Maratha State, Shivaji tried to convert Panhala into an impregnable refuge by removing to it the guns of many of his other forts, besides 40 pieces bought from the French. As early as 24th November