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Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar

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पृष्ठ 22
  1. But the effect of his inspiring speech was contrary to his expectations. As it was now amply clear from the very lips of Alexander that they would be required to fight more sanguinary wars of attrition, they were scared to the marrow. Dr. Jayswal writes in his Hindu Polity, “The Greek army refused to move an inch forward against the nations, whose very name, according to Alexander, struck his soldiers with terror.”
  2. Alexander was extremely enraged to see that his soldiers disobeyed him by flatly refusing to cross the Vyas in order to save all further trouble, because they were thoroughly exhausted and afraid to fight immediately, without any rest. But Alexander was as cunning as he was brave. Apprehending danger, Alexander refrained from doing any thing rash in a fit of anger, and straightaway walked off into his tent in utter despair. He stopped talking to anybody. He did not show himself outside his tent for three consecutive days. Then he thoughtfully hatched a new plan in his mind. He, thereafter, gathered the whole of the Greek army and told them that he had given up the plan of crossing the Vyas. He said, “I have now decided to go back to Greece.” This statement naturally elated the rank and file of his army. Alexander then asked, “But how are we to go back? If we turn our backs straightaway and go to Greece by the same route as we came along, all this Indian territory we have conquered would rise in revolt, thinking that we are stricken with terror. So instead of turning our back straight off towards the land route to Greece, we should better go a little obliquely to the sea along the banks of the Indus and then return to Persia along the sea-route. Next time when we shall come again to India, we shall conquer the Indian states beyond the Ganges and accomplish our conquest of India.”
  3. True it is that Alexander said “When once again we shall come to India’—“But O Greek Captain General, once again! Truly! But when? Let alone the kingdoms beyond the Ganges, but if these very states that you have conquered today were to renounce the yoke of your sovereignty and become independent, then? Nay, even before that next time you mentioned, if you yourself were to be no more, then...? Even the race of Zeus can succumb to the ravages of time, may it then belong to Greece.”
  4. If those Indian Gymnosophists, ascetics and recluses have ridiculed Alexander’s threat of coming back again to India in some such manner, it could never have been out of place. Alexander’s Retreat