08-30-2006, 03:00 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->(6) The contemporary English merchants of Surat wrote,â
" Shivaji is the fairest friend, noblest enemy, and the
most politique Prince/'
" He will continue victorious even to a miracle."
" Shivaji Raja, ambitious to be famed mighty conqueror,
marched into Karnatak and with a success as happy as
Caesar's in Spain, he came, he saw, and he conquered. He
has taken two very strong Ghurs or rocks, being no less dexter-
ous thereat than Alexander the Great and become master of
Bijapur. He has vowed to his God never to sheath his sword
till he has reached Delhi and shut up Aurangzeb in it. It is
too well known that Shivaji is a second Sartorius and comes
not short of Hanniball for stratagems. He loved his country
but was not partial to any one. He had many Muslims in his
service and the head of his navy was a Muslim. But he could
not tolerate the conversion of his Hindu brethren to either
Islam or to Christianity. The underlying reason for his ven-
geance upon Aurangzeb was the religious policy of that mo-
narch."
new history of the marathas volume I shivaji and his line 1600 1707, govind sakharam sardesai, Pg 297.
http://dli.iiit.ac.in/cgi-bin/Browse/scrip...e=2020050057066<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
" Shivaji is the fairest friend, noblest enemy, and the
most politique Prince/'
" He will continue victorious even to a miracle."
" Shivaji Raja, ambitious to be famed mighty conqueror,
marched into Karnatak and with a success as happy as
Caesar's in Spain, he came, he saw, and he conquered. He
has taken two very strong Ghurs or rocks, being no less dexter-
ous thereat than Alexander the Great and become master of
Bijapur. He has vowed to his God never to sheath his sword
till he has reached Delhi and shut up Aurangzeb in it. It is
too well known that Shivaji is a second Sartorius and comes
not short of Hanniball for stratagems. He loved his country
but was not partial to any one. He had many Muslims in his
service and the head of his navy was a Muslim. But he could
not tolerate the conversion of his Hindu brethren to either
Islam or to Christianity. The underlying reason for his ven-
geance upon Aurangzeb was the religious policy of that mo-
narch."
new history of the marathas volume I shivaji and his line 1600 1707, govind sakharam sardesai, Pg 297.
http://dli.iiit.ac.in/cgi-bin/Browse/scrip...e=2020050057066<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->