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

aggression with still more disastrous counter-aggression. The weapon worship religious law given by Acharya Medhatithi, became the most effective guidance to the Hindus, like the Arthashastra of Arya Chanakya to the generation of the valiant Chandragupta Maurya. To the whole of Aryavarta, he wanted to teach once again the lesson of expansionism and victorious imperialism. Medhatithi, the new interpreter of Manusmriti, was the sole religious leader and perhaps the last of the writers of Smriti. He tried to erect before the perplexd Hindus of the 9th and 10th centuries, a huge lighthouse tower of the former Aryan imperialism and expansionism of Chanakya, and to regenerate into them, new courage to push ahead determinedly and strike hard at the aggressor. His intention was clearly to animate his society with the vibrant inspiration to repulse instantly the armed religious aggression of the Muslims of those times, in the same magnificent tradition of the Aryan empires of old and with their military strategy, in fighting down the aggressive rakshasas (enemies). He wanted the Hindus to establish not only the old empire of Aryavarta, but to conquer and annex the Muslim states even beyond the limits of Aryavarta and establish Hinduism there, if necessary, even with force. The Aryan slogan ‘Krunvanto Vishvam Aryam’ (We are going to make the whole world Aryan) of the Vedic times, resounds incessantly throughout his critique on Manusmriti. 488. There had been a great confusion wrought in the Hindu Society over a thousand years or so preceding Medhatithi’s age by the anti-national and imbecile social traditions (which we have mentioned so far and will mention hereafter), about the differentiation of caste, religious tolerance and fear of pollution, which appeared as if laid down by the shritis (Vedas), and ruled as per the injunction of the Smritis. The critic Medhatithi was the only one, who on seeing the miserable plight of the Hindus determined to check their downward course and convulse the imbecile and intellectually stagnant Hindu society into its original Aryan form. Naturally, he decided to criticise Manusmriti itself, which was considered to be the basic foundation of all other smritis. He ruthlessly tested the laws of political conduct propounded therein on the anvil of Chanakya’s Arthashastra. In this way, with the original Manusmriti of the Aryans in one hand and the empire- worshipping conquest-loving Kautilya’s Arthashastra in the other, Medhatithi declared irreligious all the codes of conduct, which had been