Meanwhile, handpicked troops that had been previously positioned swooped down on the unwary Bijapur army and routed it.

When the sultan of Bijapur in 1659 sent an army of 20,000 under Afẕal Khan to defeat him, Shivaji, pretending to be intimidated, enticed the force deep into difficult mountain terrain and then killed Afẕal Khan at a meeting to which he had lured him by submissive appeals. His depredations grew increasingly audacious, and several minor expeditions sent to chastise him proved ineffective. All the same, his daring and military skill, combined with his sternness toward the oppressors of the Hindus, won him much admiration.

In the process, he destroyed a few of his influential coreligionists, who had aligned themselves with the sultans.

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