Shivaji's legacy being split into two

Soyrabai - Shivaji's seniormost surviving wife during his coronation

She gave birth to Rajaram on 24 february 1670

She was keen on making Rajaram the heir apparent after Shivaji

Another son of shivaji - Sambhaji from his wife Saibai born in 1657.

on 13 December 1678, Sambhaji, at the age of twenty-one, took a step that left his father stupefied.

He left Satara, where he was staying at the time, for Pedgaon and joined the Mughals under Diler Khan

Diler Khan sacked the town of Tikota and, for no reason, imprisoned 3,000 of the town’s ordinary inhabitants.

Sambhaji, having grown up in the Shivaji ethos, where wanton harassment especially of ordinary civilians was not the norm, was immensely disturbed by Diler Khan’s actions and decided that he did not really fit into the Mughal scheme of things.

He escaped from Diler Khan’s camp on 20 November 1679, and father and son were reunited, after a rebellion that lasted less than a year but sent shock waves through the Maratha kingdom.

Shivaji's plan to divide the kingdom

The kingdom of Jinji – stretching from the Tungabhadra to the Kaveri – is one.

The second is a kingdom on the other side of the Tungabhadra extending up to the river Godavari …

You are my eldest son. I confer on you the kingdom of the Karnataka;

the kingdom on this side I give to Rajaram.

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