 Sri Aurobindo, the great yogi, mystic and revolutionary of the 20th century wrote a poem dedicated to Baji Prabhu, which was used as a symbol to capture the spirit of sacrifice that was required of the young men in India’s freedom struggle which was then under way.Historian Jadunath Sarkar describes the incident in his book "Chhatrapati Shivaji and His Times" in the following way.The siege dragged on for nearly four months; all the paths of ingress and egress were closed to the garrison.