Chhatrapathi Shivaji

[Bodhi]

Bhushan frequently refers to him as “Avarang” instead. Avarang is a plausible enough “Brajification” of the emperor's name, but if you invoke Sanskrit etymology (and surely this point was not lost on Bhushan, a Brahman), the

word means "sickly pale."

Bhushan also frequently mutilates awrangzib's title in many other forms, such as 'awran':



"auran ko jo janam hai so vako ik hi roj

awran ko jo raj hai so siv sarja ki mauj"



[What others (auran) accomplish in whole life Shivaji performs everyday

And the reign of awran (awrangzib) is, till Shivaji allows.]



Bhushan also calls awrangzib Narang (Colourless) besides chakatta which although derived from the moghal ancestor Chagdai suits Bhushan for using it in its popular hindi meaning from Sanskrit: Blot.



At places he also puts many a pun on Awrangzib's name Alamgir.

This verse refers to an incident when Shivaji escaped from Aurangzeb’s court in Agra (not Delhi, as the verse says)

in 1666. There is a pun on the word “lakha,” meaning both wax and 100,000.

The verse does not say Shivaji escaped from Dilli (instead of agra). The reading has to be proper to get the meaning. Here is how I would translate the verse in question:



" Wonders Bhushan, isn't Awrangzeb twice as much wile and cunning as Duryodhana ever was, in wrapping the world in his designs?

And yet, Shivaji certainly exceeds too in his puruShArtha, ever more than that of the five pANDava heroes, so as to raise his tumult in dilli it seems with more dharma, strength, valour, lucidity and splendour respectively of yudhiShThira, bhIma, arjuna, nakula, and of sahdeva!

Why, didn't all the five pANDava-s escape from the lAkShAgrR^iha together , that too in the dark of night, whereas when shivAjI came out from his confinement, he did so in broad daylight, single-handedly, and from under the noses of a lakh watchposts."



Here the line in which "dili" comes -- is not in reference to the place of confinement of Shivaji, but in alluding to the tumult raised by Shivaji in the moghal capital which was the very city founded by the pANDava-s to poetically position them in comparison with shivaji.