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If you have any record on spirituality of sambhaji raje please contact me on www.mounimaharaj.com Rajendra ghorpade Pune

Contents 1 Sambhaji's Death 2 Sambhaji's Capbility 3 Capable leader indeed! 4 Image of Sambhaji 5 Shivaji Maharaj

[edit] Sambhaji's Death

The article includes graphic details of Sambhaji's death, Should be removed. dhoom 19:19, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes it makes the article more dramatic and more troublesome to read.However, the way Sambhaji was tortured to death was unparalled in the history of India.We cannot stand even a minor cut anywhere in our body.Inspite of being subjected to such inhuman torture,he did not give in his love for freedom and religion.Had he surrendered his kingdom in order to save his life and avoid cruel torture,perhaps nobody could have blamed him.However he did not do so.I would say that Hindu religion is still dominant in India and supreme sacrifice of Sambhaji made a very important contribution to that.Aurangzeb was alive for another 18 years after the death of Sambhaji.Had Maratha kingdom fallen,there would be no enemy left to Aurangzeb in the whole area to the south of Punjab and Rajasthan.Though the details of Sambhaji's death really make readers feel sad,I think they are important in as much as they prove beyond any shadow of doubt, Sambhaji's love for freedom and religion.Over the years,many historians portrayed him a negligent ruler and someone unworthy of being the son of great Shivaji.However it is not true.The way Sambhaji faced death bravely symbolizes that.Still editors are at descrition to edit the article.

5 Holy sacrifice 6 Effect of Holy sacrifice

Isnt the term "holy sacrifice" too dramatic for an encycolpedic article? I think it should be replaced by death/ capture and death. Rakes 05:39, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sambhaji's Capbility

Chatrapati Sambhaji was very very capable leader, as u can imagine he fought with Aurangzeb for 8 years who 
was armed with 5 laks of infantry,  4 laks of horse/camels/elephants and huge artillary he bought from 
british/Portugiz. While Chatrapati Sambhaji's army was maximum 60,000 and almost 10 times more was 
Aurangzeb's army. Still Chatrapati Sambhaji fought with moguls bravely and helped other two sultanates 
Kutubshaha of Goalkonda and Adilshaha of Vijapur. Till Sambhaji raje died moguls could hardly konquror any of 
his 350 forts even after wasting so much of money and army. But sambhaji raje was betrayed by many of his 
maratha/bramhin families like Shirke, Nimbalkar, Mahadik, deshpande,etc while common public was with Sambhaji 
Raje. Many of the Smbhaji raje's generals were from very poor famlies who were raied from ground zero in army 
like Mhaloji ghorpade, santaji ghorpade, Dhanji Jadhav, Hambirrao mohite, etc.
 One of the golden pages of his life was when he attacked Siddi's of Janjira, the fort which remained 
unkonqurred  till the end.He made the plan to Konquror Janjira along with one of his loyal general called 
KondajiBaba Farzand. Kondajibaba fooled the Siddi's and shod them he has betrayed Sambhji raje and ready to 
join hand with Siddi. Since Siddi's were very afraid of Smabhaji raje, they treated kondajibaba as if one of 
them. Kondajibaba was suppose to revolt from inside the janjira and Sambhaji raje was to attack from outside. 
But this ambitious plan failed because of one mistress who was with kondajibaba. With that all the 80 loyal 
and brave maratha armymen wer captured and brutelly killed by siddis. after that Sambhaji raje tried to built 
the bridge between Janjira and the coast. He himself lead the attack and at the end Siddi's had given up but 
their fate was in their favor. When siddi's were reached to consensus for surrender , moguls invaded in the 
land marathas so he has to return from konkan to the ghat (top of sahyadri lands) so could not give the 
finishing touch. 
 Similary he attacked on the Portugiz of Goa who always troubled the hindu citizens and tried to convert them 
to christen. That time viceroy of goa was Alver the Gont. He was armed with best of the artillary and army. 
But as sambhaji raje found it was not possible to defeat Portugiz by attacking Panjim fort, he tried to pull 
them out of Panjim by strategic planning and defeated them. After this battle portugiz were so frightened 
that they stopped helping moghuls. Once again luck was not in favor of Sambhaji raje, moghul prince Ajjam was 
climbing down the ghats of sahyadri so Sambahi raje has to return to raigad else there was a danger that he 
will be crushed with Portugiz and moghuls on eiether side.

[edit] Capable leader indeed!

Right now I'm reading the very recently published "Sambhaji" by Vishwas Patil. The book has been published by Mehta Publishing House. The author has done extensive research and he, I would say, successfully establishes Sambhaji as a worthy successor to Shivaji Raje. The book even has an appendix to distinguish the facts from the currently known 'fiction'. I think people should read the book. I wish to edit the stub on Sambhaji and make into a proper article with the help of this book. I shall do so when I complete reading the book, which shouldn't take more than a week from now.

Floyd_n_milan 00:26, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image of Sambhaji

I have given subtitle and added danpatra para.Can anyone insert an image of Sambhaji. kasarKasar 16:52, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shivaji Maharaj

 I think Shivaji Maharaj has