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

Mauryan era as per the injunctions of Medhatithi And that is why the Kalingas, the Pandyas, the Cheras, Cholas and other Hindu states sent powerful naval expeditions across the Western (often misnamed the Arabian Sea), the Southern and the Eastern Seas, carrying their victorious banner to the non-Aryan kingdoms, right up to the African coast on the one side and the Chinese on the other. The astonishing fact is that while in the north, Mahmud of Ghazni and Mohammed Ghori were ravaging and plundering capital-after-capital and temple-after-temple of the Hindus and trampling down their powerful kingdoms in the South, the colossal temples like the one at Bhuvaneshwar were being erected. Kings like Rajendra Chola marched with their mighty victorious naval forces, through Burma, Pegu, the Andamans and the Nicobars and other archipelagos in the Eastern Sea. They visited the Hindu confederate states in Java, Indo-China and Thailand, conquered the Lakshadiv and Maldiva island states in the Western Sea, and finally conquering Ceylon, hoisted their invincible flag on the Southern Ocean. 496. It is doubtless that on the strength of religious authority of Medhatithi, illumined by the glorious tradition of Chanakya, these victorious Hindu naval forces conquered kingdom-after-kingdom beyond the great seas and annexed them to the Aryan empire. This was accomplished not on the hobby horse to tight conventions and rigid injunctions which came into force a century or two before, but because of the enlightening and guiding commentaries of Medhatithi. ❑