रे नीच रथ्याविहितान्नपाकनारीसुताज्ञातपिता त्वमेवम् ।
ब्रूषे कथं क्षत्रकुलारविंदश्रीशाहसूर्यस्य सुतं कृतान्तम् ॥
"You, a lowly roadside food-vending woman's son who was born of an unknown father,
How dare you patronize Me, the Son of the Sun Shahaji, Lotus of the Kshatriya Clan!"
ब्रूषे कथं क्षत्रकुलारविंदश्रीशाहसूर्यस्य सुतं कृतान्तम् ॥
"You, a lowly roadside food-vending woman's son who was born of an unknown father,
How dare you patronize Me, the Son of the Sun Shahaji, Lotus of the Kshatriya Clan!"
"Magnanimity is pleasing to me always as exclusive possession of all Kshatriya Kings.
It is a self-evident virtue, ever welcomed by all like a virgin bride."
नित्यं क्षमा क्षत्रियभूरिभूपैर्भुक्तेति भोक्ष्येऽहमनन्यलभ्याम् ।
इमां समृद्धां स्वगुणैरनूनां नारीमिवोन्मादवतीं नवीनाम् ॥
It is a self-evident virtue, ever welcomed by all like a virgin bride."
नित्यं क्षमा क्षत्रियभूरिभूपैर्भुक्तेति भोक्ष्येऽहमनन्यलभ्याम् ।
इमां समृद्धां स्वगुणैरनूनां नारीमिवोन्मादवतीं नवीनाम् ॥
"But I shall indeed kill you as punishment for desecrating idols of our Devas whom we worship!
Then I will burn down the Forts of the Yavanas to ashes like a wild Forest-Fire!"
त्वामस्मदाराध्यसमस्तदेवतदाश्र योच्छेदकरं वधिष्ये ।
अद्धा करिष्ये यवनारिदुर्ग भस्मैव दावानलतुल्यमूतिः ॥
Then I will burn down the Forts of the Yavanas to ashes like a wild Forest-Fire!"
त्वामस्मदाराध्यसमस्तदेवतदाश्र योच्छेदकरं वधिष्ये ।
अद्धा करिष्ये यवनारिदुर्ग भस्मैव दावानलतुल्यमूतिः ॥
आयाहि शूराधम मा कृथास्त्वं विलम्बमात्मीयवधाय शीघ्रम् ।
"Come to me villain! Don’t delay your death anymore!"
- Words of Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaja instigating Afzal Khan Muhammadshahi, recorded by Sankarshan Sakalkale in his Sanskrit biography Shivakavya.
"Come to me villain! Don’t delay your death anymore!"
- Words of Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaja instigating Afzal Khan Muhammadshahi, recorded by Sankarshan Sakalkale in his Sanskrit biography Shivakavya.
This contemporary Sanskrit text Shivakavya of Sankarshan Sakalkale thus confirms other contemporary Maratha Powadas & texts that Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaja first provoked & then fought off Afzal Khan Abdullah Muhammadshahi in a fair hand-to-hand combat.
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Afzal Khan Abdullah Muhammadshahi was not just a Sardar but the illegitimate son of Muhammad Adilshah, and the last main pillar of the Adilshahi Empire from the Adilshahi dynasty itself. After his fall, the Bijapur nobles started leeching it from inside.
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