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

armed support for the Hindus in those regions. Another proof of this is the provision in the (Smrityaite) smarta order (order-system-laid down by the smritis) for adding or deleting according to the times and circumstances, the religious duties beneficial or harmful to the nation. The verse: “Different were the religious rites and duties of the krit, Dwapar and other epochs (ages) (But) owing to the deterioration of the ages, the duties of men have come to be different” अन्ये कृतयुगे धर्माः त्रेतायां द्वापरे परे॥ अन्ये कलियुगे नृणाम युग ह्सानुरुपतः॥ expresses the idea very succinctly. 525. Naturally, when the Hindu kingdoms beyond the Indus were lost and the Hindus and Persians and others were converted to Islam, under unbearable persecution by the Muslim powers established there, and, as such, when to go beyond the Indus became as horrible as to abandon one’s own religion, it must have become absolutely necessary for the smritis to issue the new order of the darkest hour (adverse times), that it was sinful for any Hindu to cross the Indus, that the land beyond the Indus should be considered a Muslim land. From this time onwards, therefore, the ban on crossing Attock must have been strictly enforced. 526-528. The verse in Bhavishya Puran, which describes the new boundaries of India, and which I myself brought to light for the first time “The Aryan nation is best called Sindhusthan. The land beyond the Indus is made the land of the Muslims by that great soul”. सिंधु स्थानमिति प्राहुः राष्ट्र भार्यस्य चोत्तमम्। म्लेच्छ स्थानम् परं सिंधोः कृतं तेन महात्मना॥