भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
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- It is interesting to note how side by side with the repeated annihilating aggressions of Mahmud of Ghanzi and Ghori and other Muslims, and side-by-side, again with huge numerical losses suffered by the Hindus because of their morbid misconception of virtues and caste- differences, and the ban on repurification and reconversion, the age-old native missionary spirit and urge of the Hindu nation also burst into action elsewhere, acquiring not only political power but assimilating newer tribes of thousands of people. The story of the conversion of the Ahom tribe in Assam to Hinduism, can be cited here as a sample, noting at the same time, the spread of the Hindu empire in Indo-China and beyond, referred to already towards the end of the last chapter.
- While hundreds of Hindu warships and merchant-marine were lording over the vast seas and oceans—the Gangasagar (The Bay of Bengal), the Sindhusagar (the Bay of Bombay) and the whole of the Indian Ocean—right from the Southern end of Africa to the very coast of China, it was impossible for any Hindu to have ever thought of the beggarly ban on sea-voyage! This conquest of the seas (by the Hindus), is also referred to earlier. The conversion of the Ahom tribe to Hinduism is described here as an illustration of how vis-a-vis the vast numerical losses suffered in the north because of the diabolic onslaughts of the Mahmud of Ghazni and Ghori, the Hindus went on winning religious victories and assimilating thousands of alien people into the Hindu religion.
- Beyond Assam, many wild tribes had lived a nomadic life for generations together, subsisting on marauding and plunder. Ahom, a branch of one of these tribes, called Shan, began to press hard since the 8th century A.D. on the Hindu kings of Varman, Salstam and Pal dynasties adjoining Assam. In the end in A.D. 1228, King Sukapha began to rule all these lands. He was the first king to call himself and his subjects Ahom—Ajod—i.e unrivalled! These new administrators of the land boldly and successfully faced even the Moghul might. Sukapha's kingdom was also called Ahom and modern Assam, in the opinion of some scholars, is the corrupt form of Ahom. 521A. The most astonishing fact is that among these various mountain tribes as among the Huns and the Sakas, the Hindu missions and missionaries then existing there, had planted the principles and rules of religious conduct as laid down by Hinduism, so deeply and firmly that as soon as he conquered Assam in A.D. 1554, another Ahom king along with