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

because in spite of his Hunnish extraction, he had become a faithful follower of the Vedic religion and lulled Buddhism for its feebleness. (Chapter 4—Paragraphs 284 & 285). But after Mihirgula, when Sindh went under the sway of the Vedic Hindu kings, the Buddhists no longer suffered any such persecution. They were free to follow their own religion so far as it concerned only with their own selves. The Buddhist Traitors 326. Nevertheless, these Indian Buddhists were elated to see the Muslim foreigners’ march against the Hindu kingdom. These Buddhists, who bore malice towards the Hindu, perhaps thought that these new Muslim aggressors might embrace their Buddhist cult, as did their forerunners, the Greeks under Menander or the Kushans under Kanishka, and establish a Buddhist empire over India. So they went and greeted the Arabian-Muslim leader, when he captured Port Deval from the hand of King Dahir. They appealed to him in some such way saying following: 326A. “We have nothing to do with Dahir and his Vedic Hindu cult. Our religious faith differs very widely from theirs. Our Prophet, Lord Buddha, has taught us ‘Ahimsa’ (Total Abstinence From Violence). We never take arms and dabble with political affairs of the state. Whoever wins can be the ruler of the state, we obey him in all matters temporal. You are now the victor, so now you are our King! Never suspect for a moment, that we shall even enlist ourselves in Dahir’s armed forces or help him in any way. So we pray that the Buddhist should not be subjected to any indignities or troubles at your hands.” 326B. Complying with some such request of the Buddhists, which amounted to complete surrender, the arch diplomat Kasim gave them temporary assurance of safety. 327. On receiving the news of the fall of Port Deval, King Dahir, on the other hand, mobilized his army and took the field. Kasim too, on his part, went ahead subjugating some parts of Sindh. The Muslim writers or tarikhs (reports), who have recorded the details of this campaign, testify that the Buddhist in Sindh helped the Muslims in every possible way, while the latter marched onwards, by showing them difficult passes, providing them with foodstuff and fodder and supplying them secret military intelligence. Some few Vedic Hindus also were guilty of this treachery, but their attempts were individual and exceptional. King Dahir dies Fighting on the Battle-Field