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

Hindu War Policy on The Religious and Political Front 638-639. It is made amply clear in chapters V to XII of this book that in their religio-political war with the Muslims, which the Hindus fought most tenaciously for centuries together, the Hindu war-policy had not been sufficiently strong to defeat the Muslim on the religious front. Why, it proved to be definitely weak and suicidal in comparison with the diabolically ferocious war-strategy of the Muslims on that front. For, the Hindu nation had completely forgotten, at least in respect of the religious side of it, that a nation has, as a rule, to adopt a war-strategy far stricter, crueller and more unrelenting than that of the unscrupulous enemy it wants to conquer. 640. During the Vedic and the Puranic (mythological) period, the ancestors of the Hindu Nation had to fight the Daityas, the Danavs and the Rakshasas, the cruellest, most atrocious and cunning cannibals of the time. It is because (as the Vedic and Puranik stories show) those of our ancestors, our gods, our emperors, the Vedic Rishis who chanted war canticles, the epic poets of the Puranans and all those who actively participated in the war could become more atrocious, more deceptive and cunning, and far crueller than those enemies like the Rakshasas and others. It is because they could formulate an adequate war policy to meet the ever-changing guiles of the enemy and practise it effectively so that they could always succeed in those various wars, and our nation too became stronger and more expansive than before. 641. It was not on the political front alone, but on the religious front too, that the enemy had to be faced in those times! When Vishwamitra took Shreeram to the forest to protect the Rishis, the latter was told at great length how those Rakshasas destroyed the religious rites of the time, viz. the sacrifices, and how the daughters of the Rishis were kidnapped. Later on in, Dandakaranya, Shreeram came to know what great havoc had the Rakshasa army of Ravan wrought upon the hermitages of the Rishis, who were in a minority there, with their sacrificial rites, with their colonies and even with their lives. Ram was also shown at various places the heaps of bones of those Rishis, whose blood those cannibals had drunk and whose