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'''Kavi Kalash''' (died March 1689 CE, [[Tulapur]]) was a poet, a close friend and advisor to [[Maratha Empire|Maratha king (Chatrapati)]] [[Sambhaji]] who reigned 1680-1689.<ref name="Mehta2005">{{cite book|author=Jaswant Lal Mehta|title=Advanced Study in the History of Modern India 1707-1813|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d1wUgKKzawoC&pg=PR7|date=1 January 2005|publisher=Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd|isbn=978-1-932705-54-6|page=49}}</ref><br />
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== Early life ==<br />
A [[Kanyakubja Brahmin|Kannauj brahmin]] by birth,<ref name="Mehta2005" /> Kalash was an able administrator as well as a warrior, who accompanied Sambhaji in many of his campaigns. He is known to have defeated Shahabuddin Khan in a fierce battle near Raigad in 1684. He was given the title of ''Chandogamatya'' by Sambhaji.<br />
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== Death ==<br />
In March 1689, Kavi Kalash was captured, along with King Sambhaji, by the Mughal army under [[Aurangzeb]] in [[Sangmeshwar|Sangameshwar]], and was tortured and killed. They were paraded as clowns and, according to some accounts, killed using tiger claws for a slow death.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sawant |first=Indrajit |title=Marathyanche Swatantrayuddha bhag - 1. Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj }}</ref> Italian traveller [[Niccolao Manucci]] in his history of Mughal empire claimed that Kalash was secretly working for [[Aurangzeb]] and helped him in capturing Sambhaji, but Kalash was still killed by Aurangzeb.<br />
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