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Hi,

Wondering why the well-known legends of Tanaji coming away from the wedding of his beloved son in order to lead the attack on Kondana, as also his use of "Ghorpad" lizards to scale its cliffs is not mentioned here? ImpuMozhi 23:26, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Death is 1670 or 1672?

Both dates are given by authoritative source. You'd think there'd be some sort of unanimity about Sinhagad and Tahaji. I'm altering to 1670 to keep consistent with timelines in Shivaji and Sinhagad.

[edit] About the Ghorpads (also called Bengal monitors or hill iguanas) Tanaji Malusare used to concqure fort Sinhgad salvation war.

As a boy , in my childhood i have heard many stories about king Shivaji and his heroic dids. I Vishal Prakash Dudhane living in Pune city are from the town Khamgaon Maval in foothills of fort Sinhagadh or Old name fort Kondhana. My home village is part of fort Sinhagadh as known from goverment land records . Infact ther are 8 ( eight ) villages which are known as " Aathagaon Ghera " or Eight villages round .I have sweat memoreis of my childhood when during school vacations i used to stay in my uncles home for more than two months.I use to wonder with my brother , do the farm work , go with the befelos fo hearding and at local steam.During the yearly 'Urus' or festival of local deity Amrinath which is next day of Hindu holy years first day festival Gudhipadva i visit the village .The old peoples of our village says that when Tanaji Malusare went for the salvation war he took local peoples from our village to show the proper way to climb on fort Sinhagadh . Infact our village was gantade as " Inam " or Jhagir or gift from King Shivaji to his main spy Hiroji Farjad alias .... Bhosale. Today in this Ghera Sinhagadh round hills ther is a banglow housing society named Anandvan. Ther are many banglow farm houses in this society. We have a banglow plot at there. I have visited many times and done some farm work ther. I have most important thing to tell that the Lionheart Tanaji Malusare fact that he climb on fort Sinhagadh with the help of Ghorpads (also called Bengal monitors or hill iguanas) . All Marathi historians use to say that this story ( Fact ) is untrue. But when i asked to my relatives that if the Ghorpads (also called Bengal monitors or hill iguanas) is present in our area , they say yess , the Ghorpads (also called Bengal monitors or hill iguanas) is present but to see a sight of it is very rare and ospicious. During my time at my village area of Khamgaon Maval i then have seen this Ghorpads (also called Bengal monitors or hill iguanas) two times. The last ocassion occured when before my marraige in Februwary 2002 we had arranged a ritual called Jawal Jatra. The ritual Jawal Jatra was arrenged in a farm nearby our village and when i visted the nearby well for some work i saw the Ghorpads (also called Bengal monitors or hill iguanas). It was around 2 O Clock time. So the statement from modern historians that the story or fact that the Lionheart Tanaji Malusare that he climb on fort Sinhagadh with the help of Ghorpads (also called Bengal monitors or hill iguanas) is untrure is falls according to me --- Vishal Prakash Dudhane.