On receiving Shivaji's Death, Aurangzeb thought that he could now conquer deccan. Aurangzeb was dead scared of shivaji because Shivaji had made Aurangzeb's Uncle Shaista Khan run away from Pune and this Uncle had become mad after the encounter with Shivaji wherein Shivaji had chopped off three fingers of Shaista Khan.
in 1682 the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb himself headed south with his entire imperial court, administration, and an army of about 180,000 troops which proceeded to conquer the sultanates of Bijapur and Golconda. During the eight years, that he led the Marathas, Sambhaji never lost a battle or a fort to Aurangzeb. However, in 1688, Sambhaji was treacherously caught, tortured, and then painfully dismembered for not converting over to Islam. This was the ploy of all the earlier Islamists who came and looted India. That is convert the King and the common man will automatically be forced.
After the death of Sambhaji and then his brother Rajaram, Queen Tarabai took over the fight to Aurangzeb.
Now, Aurangzeb had learnt in Quran that Women are weak, less intelligent then Men. He thought this meant the end of the fight with Marathas after almost hard 18 years. But, Tarabai not only proved otherwise more clever than him, but also showed the way of thinking in Hindusim. When raiding Aurangzeb Camp, the marathas found Aurangzeb praying and thereby didn't kill him but only took away his King's hat to remind him how close to him they had come.
After this incident, Aurangzeb felt ashamed at being beaten by a woman, his teachings from Quran had been proved wrong. The way the Marathas left him alive only made him repent for his deeds against Hindus. This nature of his was now new to his Muslim soldiers and they thought that Aurangzeb had become mad. In the end, Aurangzeb died a lost man, a lost king and ashamed of the religion on whose basis he had tortured and killed so many innocent Hindus.
