Page 3 - Chhatrapati Shivaji and His Work

JAYSINGH

Neither of us has prevailed. A third force has entered into the land and

taken the fruits of your work, and as for mine, it is broken; the ideal I

cherished has gone down into the dust.

SHIVAJI

For the fruit I did not work and by the failure I am not amazed nor

discouraged.

JAYSINGH

Neither did I work for a reward, but to uphold the ideal of the Rajput.

Unflinching courage in honourable warfare, chivalry to friend and foe, a

noble loyalty to the sovereign of my choice, this seemed to me the true

Indian tradition, preferable even to the unity and predominance of the

Hindu races. Therefore I could not accept your overtures. But I gave you

the opportunity to accept my own tradition and, when faith was not kept

with either of us, I saved my honour and assisted your escape.