भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

according to the standards of the time. The Muslim hoarders that invaded India, centuries afterwards, were highly fanatical, diabolic and ruthlessly destructive. It would have been in the fitness of things to call them ‘Mussalmans’ in view of their demonic nature. To call them ‘Yavans’ is doubly wrong inasmuch as it unduly flatters them and does a very great injustice to the word ‘Yavan’ itself. The Mussalmans may be called ‘Mlenchhas’, not ‘Yavans’. Alexander and stupid Muslims 18. A stupid notion common amongst most of the Muslims is worth a mention here. The name ‘Alexander’ was corrupted into ‘Shikandar’ in the Persian language. So long as the Greek empire had Persia under its sway, many of the Persian people highly impressed by the unprecedented valour of Alexander named their new born sons Shikandar. Later on, even after the Persians were converted to Islam, this practice of naming their children after ‘Shikandar’ persisted. The Muslim converts in India adopted that practice. But ignorant of the historical origin of the word ‘Shikandar’, thousands of Muslims in India, fondly believe that like Mohammad Ali, Kasim and others, the name Shikandar is a Muslim name, and that valiant Alexander must be some Muslim personality. Nay, he could be so very valiant and a world conqueror simply because he was a Muslim. If any one tries to convince these fanatic, vulgar and vainglorious Muslims that ‘Shikandar (Alexander) was not a Muslim, that he could never be one, as Mohammed Paighamber, the founder of the Muslim religion, was himself born not less than a thousand years after the death of Shikandar, these, diehard Muslims, would call that person uninformed. 19. The eastern boundary of Alexander’s empire at that time was the Hindukush mountains. After having crossed these mountains, he marched with his vast armies straight to Taxila in India. The King of Taxila, King Ambuj (Ambhi) accepted his overlordship without giving him any battle. Some Greek writers assert that this very King of Taxila had invited Alexander in order to put down his rival, King Porus. If that is so, Ambhi had quit naturally to pay for his treachery by his willing, through abject submission to the Greeks. University in Taxila and a strange coincidence 20. Taxila was the seat of the most famous Indian University of the time, where students from different countries came to study various sciences and arts. Even the princesses of different states came there, learnt political