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

women, who have fallen victim to the religious persecution of the Muslims and have been forcibly converted to Islam, by some form of atonement and by repurification?” The verses in Deval Smriti clearly mention that such discussions were held at different times and the authoritative and final answers were given, and the rules of conduct propounded by Maharshi Deval favouring reconversion. These advocates and writers of this new Smriti and their followers declared as unlawful and irreligious in those adverse circumstances, the very religious act of banning reconversion as it was causing tremendous numerical losses to the Hindus. Special Weapons for Special Occasions 477-478. In the armoury of our religious code of conduct, there always had been very special and progressive weapons for meeting very special and exceptional circumstances. All that was needed was a class of leaders to use them from time to time! If in the initial stages of adverse times of the Hindu-Muslim war, these special and exceptional weapons had only been unsheathed and sharpened, Hinduism itself might have completey routed Islam from the Indian soil, as it happened when the valiant (because they were attacking the enemy!) and victory-longing gods and the Aryans fought with the demons (dashyus). Even if the same religious resplendence was not uniformly shown by the Hindus, it was, in some measure, seen in the revolutionary religious reforms of Deval Maharshi of Sindh. Maharshi Deval is said to have lived sometime between A.D. 800 to A.D. 900. 479. Because of this religious resplendence alone, Deval Maharshi could kick away the traditional religious ban on redemption for the unwilling converts and propounded in his Smriti, an expedient of atonement for the sin of conversion. It has been laid down in the Deval Smriti, that if, within a certain period of his or her forcible conversion to Islam, a Hindu man or woman showed his or her desire to be reconverted to Hinduism with due atonement, he or she was to be administered simple and practical penance of fast or something else and absorbed once again in the Hindu society. The liberal attitude of this Smriti towards women, in the context of the times is specially laudable. It enjoined that the women forcibly converted to Islam, or those who served in the Muslim households as menial servants or slaves, be considered pure after their next menses and should be completely absorbed in the Hindu community. Even a pregnant Hindu woman, freed from the Muslim bondage, was to be considered as pure as a bar of gold