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

brave soldiers, mad with victory after victory, had been so much impressed by the unbroken chain of Alexander’s conquests, that they looked upon this great General and Emperor as a divine being. Alexander himself began to pose as the son of the Greek God, Zeus. Geographical Dimensions of India 11. In those days, some two-thousand-and-five hundred years ago, the Indian community and Indian kingdoms had spread far beyond the Indus, right up to the boundary of Persia. The mountain range known today as the Hindukush was at that time called Paropnisus by the Greeks. The modern Afghanistan was called Gandhar, known in Indian tradition by the name Afghanistan, while the river Kabul has been called Kubha in our ancient literature. Throughout the whole region up to the Hindukush mountain, ruled peacefully various states, some small, others large. Right from these Indian states, all along the banks of the Indus, straight up to the place where it leaps into the sea, was a long and unbroken chain of Indian states, which strictly followed the Vedic religion. Most of them were republics and were then called ‘Ganas’ or ‘Ganarajyas’. Their constitution was essentially democratic. There were only two or three monarchies worth the name, one of which, the biggest and strongest, was ruled by a Pourav King, whom the Greeks called Porus. Dr. Jayaswal’s ‘Hindu Polity’ 12. Dr. Jayaswal, one of the prominent members of the revolutionary party, ‘Abhinava Bharat’, during the critical years of 1907-1910, and later on a world-famous Orientalist, has given, after a critical research, a very detailed account of the different ‘Bharateeya Ganas’, spread along both the banks of the Indus right up to its confluence with the sea. 13. According to Greek mythologies, they seem to have believed that their ancestors had migrated as a separate branch of the original Aryan stock from Gandhar and other regions beyond the Indus. When Alexander’s forces entered the precincts of India, they accidentally came across a small community of people who called themselves the original Greeks. They had been completely merged with the Indians, but as soon as they saw this Greek army, they avowed that they were the ancient brethren of those Greeks. Alexander, too, was led to believe that India must be the original abode of his ancestors. He and his whole army were so much delighted at the sight of this, their antique fatherland, that they stopped fighting for some