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Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar

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पृष्ठ 112, कुल 494 में से

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पृष्ठ 112
  1. But what they thus asked for as a boon proved to be an inexorable curse for them. After winning the final battle, when the Muslim rushed violently, like a stormy wind throughout Sindh, they went on beheading these Buddhists even more ruthlessly than they did the Vedic Hindus. For, the Vedic Hindus were fighting in groups or individually at every place and so they struck at least a little awe and terror in the minds of the Muslims. But as there was no armed opposition in Buddhist vihars and Buddhist localities, the Muslims cut them down as easily as they would cut vegetable. Only those of the Buddhists who took to the Muslim faith were spared, while all their vihars throughout Sindh and the innumerale shrines in them were knocked down, and hammered to pieces; for the Muslims hated these ‘Buddhparastis’—these shrine-worshippers.
  2. The very word, “Buddhaparasta”, which found its way into the Islamic tongue, is itself a corrupt form of the original Sanskrit word of the Buddhists, “Buddhaparsata”. The Muslims began to call the shrine- worshippers “Buddhaparashta” because on their way to India, they first found such numerous shrines nowhere but in the Buddhist vihars. To annihilate such shrine-worshippers was for the Muslims, a sort of religious commandment. Buddhist Ahimsa and Muslim Himsa
  3. This is now the place where the question that we have discussed at length in Chapter II (Paras 152 to 159) of this book, about the downfall of Buddhism in India should be chronologically concluded. By the year A.D. 700, of which we are speaking in these pages, that is, before the Muslims could set foot in India towards Sindh, the Buddhists all over India were fast diminishing in numbers and dwindling into non-existence as is already shown in previous chapters. The successful theoretical refutation of the Buddhist philosophy and religious tenet by the stalwart Vedic theologians and ‘pandits’ is not the only cause of the total extinction of the Buddhists in India; many other social and political events also had a fair share in this momentous task. Of them only those, which have not received the proper attention from the historians so far, or which have not been given enough prominence they really deserve, will be conspicuously referred to at their proper places in these brief concluding remarks. The first cause: the Buddhists’ High Treason
  4. We have already dwelt at length on this collective high treason of the Buddhists in India against their nation in Ch. II Paras 152 to 159; 182-209,