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

defeat of Mihirgula and the extinction of the Hun Power on the Oxus, India enjoyed immunity from foreign attacks for nearly five centuries.” 300A. It clearly means that after the defeat of Mihirgula at the hands of Yashodharma and after the end of the Hun empire beyond the Oxus, there had been no foreign aggression over India for nearly five centuries to come. Thus the whole of India, right from Pariyatra (Hindukush), Gandhar, Kashmir, Punjab and Sindh straight to Kanyakumari, enjoyed under the Hindu kings, prosperity and happiness for nearly five hundred years. The whole of Bharat was independent, powerful, wealthy and happy! A Resume of the Ancient period in Indian History 301-307. If by the Ancient Period in Indian History, the one from B.C. 600 to A.D. 700—a period as large as 1300 years—and if the succeeding period is called the modern, it is in the fitness of things that here and now, should end that period so far as the subject-matter of this book is concerned. Some of the historical points pertaining to this ancient period—which should very carefully be impressed on the minds of our young men and women and the general reader, but which are generally lost sight of, are briefly dealt with here in this conclusion: (1) In this ancient period, no foreign aggressor could ever conquer the whole of India at any lime. This fact generally escapes the notice of good many of the foreigners or our own men, while some deliberately neglect it or pervert it. On reading such titles of Chapters as ‘Alexander’s Invasion of India’ “Sakas’ Aggression of India”, foreign as well as native readers are generally misled into a belief that the whole of India was overrun either by Alexander or by the Huns, and lost its independence. Under this delusion, many of the enemies of India and her so-called well-wishers have raised such objections and propounded such theory as to mean that the whole life of the Indian nation, i.e. the Hindu nation, has passed under foreign slavery. It is to bring to light and refute this foolish and wicked charge and to show that it is due to either unintentional ignorance or wilful malice, that such theories are ever propounded, that this book has been purposely written. So from the foregoing narration, it should be clear that—(2) Right from Nepal to Eastern Sea (Bay of Bengal), the whole of northern and eastern India and southern India, that is to say, practically three fourths of this great continent of India, had remained completely independent of any foreign domination for these 1300 years. No aggressor by sea or land could ever reduce it completely to slavery.