“I demand for the third time, which I declare shall be the last, the chauth or the quarter part of the king’s revenue under your Government. As your Emperor has forced me to keep an army for the defence of my people and country, that army must be paid by his subjects. If you do not send the money speedily, then make ready a large house for me, for I shall go and sit down there and receive the revenue and custom duties, as there is none now to stop my passage.”
Source: Shivaji and his times by Jadunath Sarkar, pg. 220
Available online at: http://www.archive.org/details/shivajihistimes00sarkrich
The “Emperor” of course was Aurangzeb.
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