"In South India when the Maratha King Sambhaji and his minister Kavikalash were taken prisoner, "that very night his eyes were blinded and the next day the tongue of Kavikalash was cut out. After a fortnight's torture their limbs were hacked one by one and their flesh thrown to the dogs"
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