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

rendered impotent because of the imbecile and intellectually sterile Hindu Ahimsa. With one stroke of remonstrance like the following: 489. या वेदब्राह्याः यस्मृतमयः याश्च काश्च कुदृष्टयः। सर्वास्तान् विपरीतार्थान्, वेदविद् न समाचरेत्॥ He rendered not only all the silly ‘codes of conduct’, but even the smritis that called them caste-laws absolutely defunct and valueless. 490. Most probably, Medhatithi might have seen and heard about all the religious persecution by the Muslims in Sindh and the Punjab and the failure of the Hindus, for various reasons already discussed, to avenge it or even to counteract it effectively. Naturally, in order to din once again into the ears of the then defeated, fallen and perplexed Aryan nation the echoes of the smritis of the old Aryavarta, which was on its way to glory and which, with the motto • कृण्वन्तो विश्वम् आर्यम on its banner was conquering in all directions, Medhatithi picked up and extolled in his own critique as Manu’s original commandments, only the warlike, arms-adoring and imperialistic religious rites and precepts. All others, he condemned as वेदब्राह्याः स्मृतयः (smritis against the Vedas)! His thundering sentences did not befit the then powerless Hindu kings, nor could those kings utter them with proper dignity and grandeur. Those precepts were really meant for an Emperor like Chandragupta or Emperor Pushyamitra! 491-492. Medhatithi clearly declares that to invade another kingdom— especially an enemy state—can never be an injustice in political science. It is, on the other hand, the duty of a king, he said, to pounce upon the non- Hindu enemy and crush him before he grows powerful enough to invade the former. In statesmanship, the protection of the Aryavarta is the supreme duty of a king. That is why he condemns as suicidal, dilatory and so adverse to the kingly duty, everything that the other imprudent foolhardy critics recommend as proper code of conduct: viz that while attacking a foreign kingdom and especially the Muslim kingdom, the Aryan kings should not strike till the other gives offence of some sort or the other. On the contrary, he says that the neighbouring king is an enemy is in itself his fault; at an opportune moment, he should be pounced upon and crushed. What more, if the neighbouring non-Aryan kingdom is seen to be getting stronger and mightier than our Aryan state, whether it is guilty of any tangible offence or not, we should ourselves form alliance with other friendly or unfriendly