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

all of a sudden, began to make munificent grants to Hindu temples. He even had new idols ceremoniously installed in the big temples, formerly smashed to pieces by his own Muslim hirelings. He requested the Hindu Brahmins lo pray to their gods in various Hindu temples that he might get success in this war with the Marathas. In order to please the very Brahmins he hated most bitterly and tortured mercilessly, he now paid them large sums of money. He had ceremonial prayers made. He himself paid great homage to Shree Shankaracharya (of Shringeri), to avert the imminent calamity and asked for his blessings, which the great man readily gave. Tipu not only attended the Chariot-festival of certain Hindu gods at Kanchi, but he himself walked in the festive procession. With his own hands, he ignited the fireworks to heighten the festive spirit of the occasion. Demons Worship Gods 571. It is said that even devils start worshipping those gods, who have the weapons powerful enough to destroy the enemy. But neither God nor Devil came to save the wicked Tipu from that calamity and at last, after two or three expeditions, the Marathas and the English forces subjugated the whole of his kingdom. Tipu himself was killed in 1799 and his dominions were divided. The small portion formerly belonging to the Hindu King of Travancore was returned to him, and the original royal family of the Vodyars was reinstalled at Mysore. Some of the remaining territory was taken over by the English, while the large tract from Karnataka to the Tungabhadra river was annexed by the Marathas to their empire. All the Hindu states, which he had vowed to wipe out at the time of his accession to the throne, began once again to rule peacefully in their own places. If any one was totally ruined, it was Tipu himself with all his Muslim territory. Hindus’ Success 572. Thus, the violent religious aggression under Tipu’s leadership, which the Muslims in South India had launched and perpetrated with a crescendo against the Hindus during the two decades or so immediately preceding the year A.D. 1790, was heroically and successfully put down by the Hindus politically, as well as, on the battlefield. Muslims Gain 573. Maratha warriors, claiming to defend Hindu religion, smashed the Muslim military and political might, as has been already described. But they did not simultaneously deal any counter-blow to their religious front,