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True Valor
He worked out that it could not be stormed and could not be starved. That left one category: be inside already when the fighting starts.
Panhala is not a hill fort in the ordinary sense. It is a plateau with a wall around it.
Some seven kilometres of fortification, enclosing enough ground to hold a town, with its own granaries and water. Armies had sat outside it for months. Shivaji himself had been besieged inside it in 1660, and had escaped by night to Vishalgad.
Baji Prabhu Deshpande held the pass at Ghod Khind while he went, and died doing it.
By 1673 it was Adil Shahi again, garrisoned by a force the accounts put around two and a half thousand.
It was the anchor of Bijapur's position in the Kolhapur country.
Shivaji gave the job to Kondaji Farzand and asked him how many men he wanted.
He asked for sixty.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.