While bijapur was still mourning the death of afzalkhan and the complete rout of his army, captured the panhala fort from the bijapur garrison.this threw adilshah into a fit of whild rage.he could neither eat nor sleep . He dispatched another sardar, siddi jauhar, against shivaji .siddi jauhar had a huge army with him fajal khan who wanted to avenge his father's death, also accompanied him.
The siege of panhala
Siddi jauhar was brave but ruthless .he was a strict disciplinarian .he laid siege to panhalagad and confined shivaji within the fort .the rainy season was approaching and shivaji thought that once the rains came siddi jauhar would lift and siege .but siddi jauhar did nothing of the kind .on the contrary, with the arrival of the monsoon ,he further tightened the siege .supplies in the fort were running out .shivaji was in a fix .since he could not force siddi jauhar to lift the siege by an open battle,he decided to deceive siddi jauhar by a clever ruse . He sent a message to siddi jauhar to effect that he would shortly surrender the fort .siddi was happy .
Siddi's troops were already tired of the long siege. They were very pleased to hear that shivaji maharaj agreed to surrender .they relaxed the watch and indulged in food,drink and music .
Shivaji escapes from the siege:
A plan was hit upon to escape from the siege. Two Palanquins were kept ready. One was meant for shivaji in which he would proceed using a difficult route.The other would be occupied by another person disguised as shivaji. This palanquin was to leave by the 'Raj-dindi'.This other palanquin would be easily spotted by the enemy forces,and it would be captured by them.while the army celebrated the capture of shivaji maharaj,the real shivaji maharaj escape by the difficult route.this was the plan.for this a brave youth undertook this task.he resembled shivaji in looks.his name was Shiva Kashid.he was a hairdresser in shivaji's service he was courageous and shrewd.As planned the palanquin carrying shiva Kashid came out of raj dindi .it was a dark night and it was raining heavily. Still ,some enemy soldiers were keeping watch .they captured palanquin. They thought that they had caught shivaji maharaj himself and took the palanquin to siddi's camp.in the meanwhile, shivaji escaped from the fort by the difficult route .he was accompanied by baji pradhu deshpande and some selected soldiers. The bandal deshmukh army accompanied them.after some time ,the plot of shiva kashid was exposed .the furious siddi killed him then and their .shiva Kashid sacrificed his own life in the cause of shivaji and swaraj .thus, he becamed immortal .when the siddi learned that shivaji had given him the sleep,he was livid with rage .immediately,he dispatched his sardar siddi Masahud accompanied by a big army, in hot pursuit of shivaji .at day break, the pursuing horse men caught up with shivaji maharaj at the pundarpani steam .shivaji maharaj was know in real trouble...with the greatest difficulty he and his men crossed the Ghodkhind ...
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