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

the time, is applicable, almost word-by-word to the various acrimonious battles of the Hindus with the Portuguese, after their arrival in India and the Christian missionaries in general, and the Christian nations also. 548. It must also be remembered here that at this very time, the Arab and the Christian nations established their rule over the South Sea (the Indian Ocean). They attacked our old Hindu-Buddhist states, that had spread far and wide up to Indo-China and deprived millions of Hindus of their religion, causing the Hindus, indirectly, to fetter themselves with the new shackles of the ban on sea voyage. This not only worsted the Hindu political and religious authority, but caused a great loss to them of their grand aspiration for the naval empire and foreign trade. They lost their whole navy and naval trade. Not only did the ship-building industry of the Hindus perish, but to maintain such seafaring naval force itself became sinful. Hindu religion and Hindu nation became literally narrow-minded because of its own blunders. Even if any daring Hindu tried to break this shell of narrow-mindedness on the Eastern, Western and Southern oceans, there was the prohibitive placard “समुद्रयातुः स्वीकार - कलौ पंच विवर्जयेत्” — This was inviolable. 549. Heretofore, we have mentioned only some of the chosen events, violent or non-violent, regarding the Muslim-Christian two-fold political and religious armed aggression against the Hindus, and the way in which they faced it, and even of the revenge that the Hindus also took of those atrocities and humiliations during this violent thousand year-old Hindu- Muslim war. They can easily show according to the ‘स्थाली पुलाक न्याय’ (judging cooked rice by testing one cooked grain only), the enormity of the struggle. 550. Truly speaking, while religious leaders like Shankaracharya Vidyaranyaswami, national heroes like Chhatrapati Shivaji, Durgadas Rathod Maharaja Jaswant Singh of Jodhpur and saints and sages like Ramanand, Shree Chaitanya and others gave the lead in carrying on counter-offensives on the religious front by individual or mass conversions, the Hindu society as a whole ought to have rocked the skies by effecting unceasing mass conversions of the Muslim men and women to Hinduism and reconversion of Hindu converts, who had fallen victim to the violence