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50 divided the two dominions in the north; Junnar and Chamargunda belonged to the Mughals and Chakan to Shivaji. His southern boundary was marked by the outposts of Indapur, Baramati, and Supa and the forts of Purandar, Rajgarh, Kondana, and Torna. In Konkan or the country west of the Ghats, he had gained Kalian, Mahuli, and some other places in the south-eastern corner of the Thana district and the eastern half of the Kolaba district down to but not including the town of Mahad.

The above was his position in 1648. But in 1655 the conquest of Javli extended his dominions in the uplands or Desh to the southern limit of the Satara district, and in Konkan from Mahad to near Rajapur, i.e., over the south-eastern Kolaba and nearly the whole of eastern Ratnagiri districts. Thus he now became master of the whole of Konkan except the ports and adjacent lands on the west coast (which belonged to Bijapur, the Siddis, and the Portuguese) and the extreme north of the Thana and the extreme south of the Ratnagiri districts.

The earliest Maratha historian of Shivaji, viz., Krishnaji Anant Sabhasad (1694), writes that Shivaji sent Raghunath Ballal as envoy to Chandra Rao,