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

(3) Of the remaining western and northern India, roughly about 1/4 of the continent was only once traversed by a foreigner. Sakas and Kushans held the north-western tract of land between Punjab and Gujarat for some time. The Huns could barely reach Ujjain. How miserably these national foes suffered at the hands of Indian nationals has been briefly decribed in the foregoing pages. (4) Hardly any other contemporary nation of the world will be seen to have so successfully destroyed the foreign aggressors and maintained its national independence for such a length of time—not less than 1300 years. (5) It is not only India that these Ionians, Sakas and Huns and other aggressors invaded. Some of them disrupted almost all the other nations of the then known world and brought in the so-called Dark Ages. They threw some of the other nations into complete oblivion—a fact that must always be kept in view, when comparing them with India in respect of these barbaric aggressions. (6) These very barbaric aggressors, who came in such large numbers carrying powerful weapons, with the diabolic ambition of annihilating the whole of the Indian continent were themselves reduced by the Indian warriors to ashes in the conflagration of a general war, their beastly instincts being purified in the material fires and merged in the vast Indian multitude so completely, that even their name did not remain behind them! 308. Let us for a moment imagine that a certain Angel who had been oberving the affairs of this Earth at that time, has once again come down on the Himalayan peaks and is surveying the Indian scene. Not knowing what happened during the intervening years, he bagan to ask from the peak: “Well, are there still left over in this continent of India and of the Ionians (Greeks), who had once founded a kingdom in a small corner of this vast piece of land?” If any Angel does inquire this way, there is unfortunately no one left to tell him, ‘ Well, I am he—their descendant!” If again the Angel asks, “In one part of India, there were some kingdoms and communities of the Sakas and the Kushans. Is there anyone of them to be found here now?” To answer this question in the affirmative, there is unluckily none left. No one can be found today to say, “Yes, I am a Saka” or “I am a Kushan.” Were he again to ask for the third time. “At least some of the gentlemen belonging to the Hun clan, who had once harassed the whole of the world and who had once advanced up to Ujjain must be found here! Are there any