भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
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- At last, the main forces of the Muslims and the Hindus joined battle at Brahmanabad. The Hindus fought fiercely. Although the Muslims then had no cannon, they had firearms of a new type the Hindus did not possess. Naturally, the latter began to find themselves weaker in strength. Moreover, the Arab platoons that were in the pay of Dahir rebelled, when the Hindu- Muslim armies came to close quarters; the Arabs informed him that they would not fight against Mohammed-bin-Kasim since the latter was a Muslim as they themselves were, and that it was a religious crusade against the Kafirs. What more, they even marched on their Hindu master himself. This artlessness of the Hindus in placing complete faith in the enemy met the same fate, whenever in future a Hindu King employed Muslim soldiers in his army. This very often caused the Hindu strategy to topple down and made their battle-arrays ineffective.
- Nevertheless, without letting this betrayal of the Arab platoons cause any confusion in his ranks, King Dahir mounted his elephant and kept on fighting in the thick of the fray. But when he himself was killed in the battle, the Hindu army was routed, and the Muslims, in hot pursuit, entered the city.
- However, the moment she received the horrible news of King Dahir’s death on the battlefield, the Queen and hundreds of other brave Hindu women leapt into a great fire and burnt themselves to death. It was the limit of warlike spirit, the Kshatriya Dharma! The enemy’s attempts to capture and molest the Queen and other women of high-rank were mostly foiled.
- Even then, in the confusion that was wrought everywhere, Dahir’s two daughters named Suryadevi and Pramiladevi fell into the hands of the Muslims, who had dashed into the city, killing every captive soldier and every citizen. Mohammed Kasim took them and also hundreds of others away as courtesans. The looting and massacre of the Hindus and the large- scale arson in the city went on unhindered. But that was the fate of not only one city, but of every other city or town that the Muslims visited on their onward march through Sindh, which met with the same disaster. But what were the Buddhists Doing in this National Catastrophe?
- At the news of the fall of King Dahir and the victory of the Muslims, these Buddhists began to ring bells in their vihars to greet the Muslim conquerors, and prayed in congregations for the prosperity of the Muslim rulers!