Perhaps their scheme might have succeeded had not Sivaji himself, now feeling his way to power, seen the peril of the connection.
I will brook it from no one, not even from Sivaji Bhslay himself!
Sivaji and his fighting officers were Mahrattas of humble caste, but his ministers were Brahmans.
Sivaji the Great, as already mentioned, died in 1680, while Aurangzeb was still on the throne.
The last direct representative of Sivaji died without a male heir in 1848, and his deathbed adoption was set aside.
