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

powers and go to war against this non-Aryan state, the moment we are assured of success. 493. Throughout the critical treatise of Medhatithi, one dominant aspiration makes itself felt on almost every page that the smaller states of Shreeman Bhojraj—the Rajput prince—and other Hindu kings should be united into a powerful kingdom and once again a mighty empire like the old —nay, an invincible and victorious Bharatiya Empire—should rise on the Indian soil. From this point of view, while writing about the other kingly duties, he has emphasized one, viz. that even before the Mlenchchas (non- Aryans) attack an Aryan state, the latter should march against the enemy kingdom. Once you are engaged in war with the enemy, you should throw kindness and generosity to the winds and crush the enemy outright. The crafty enemy should be struck down with super-cunning and skilful deception under any pretext whatsoever. In a war, the so-called virtues like honesty, simplicity, consistency in speech and action and politeness, gentility and generosity themselves prove fatal to the nation. Hence, a king should not fall a prey to them—should keep himself aloof from them. 494. Medhatithi has most powerfully expounded this sort of stern political theory (ethics). For, it was absolutely essential for saving the Hindus from complete annihilation at the hands of the Muslims, because of their simplicity. To teach them the arch-diplomacy of Arya Chanakya, was his sole aim. Medhatithi plainly says that the Aryadharma nowhere decrees that the Aryans should confine themselves to the boundaries of Aryavarta. On the contrary, the pith and marrow of the religious code of the Hindus, he says, is that if the mighty Aryan kings invade the non-Aryan kingdoms beyond the Aryavarta and conquer them, and immediately spread their Aryadharma there and finally establish their empire in those lands, then even those former non-Aryan lands should thereafter be considered Aryan lands and incorporated in Aryavarta! 495. At least some Hindu states of those times followed these precepts of Medhatithi and like Chanakya's ideal disciple, Chandragupta, literally crossed the boundaries of Aryavarta and waged successful wars against the Muslim powers. Although to the north, the frontier Hindu states were forced not to cross but to defend their boundaries, yet till nearly one hundred and fifty years after the death of Mahmud of Ghazni, the Southern Hindu states remained independent and powerful. So the Indian Hindu States were able to carry out the victorious political experiments of the