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

accounts written by the Rajput Bhats, Charans in their heroic and, to some exent, poetic style and known in that region as ‘Rasos’. But it is doubtful whether amongst our historians, there be five or at the most ten such as have read them with any scientific curiosity! That is why none of the histories written of the Rajputs of the times or, for that matter of the whole Hindu society of that age, with the solitary exception of that of Col. Tod, really deserves to be truly called histories. They are mere translations or transliterations of stray incoherent remarks and disconnected and perverted accounts of the Muslim or the English writers. Independent ‘Rasos’ seem to have been composed on valiant Rajput Ranas, proud of their religion (Hamir Raso, Chhatrasal Raso, etc.). The ‘Rasos’ are not pure, unadulterated histories! But the forceful and vivid descriptions of the various events, their high fervour and the fact of their authors’ participation to a lesser or greater degree, in those particular historical events, make those grand incidents live, as it were, before the imagination of the reader, as the above-mentioned sketchy outlines of chronological accounts can never do. ‘Prithviraj Raso’ by the famous Chand Bhat, who was in the pay of Prithviraj, bears out the above remark by its epic serenity, calm dignity and moving pathos in the descriptions of the Hindus of the time and of its account of the first Muslim raids from the north-west. 677. The Story of the fire race (अग्नि-कुल) 678. The Nagari Pracharini Sabha had undertaken to republish this ‘Prithviraj Raso’ in 1922-23, when 1 was in prison at Ratnagiri, where some parts of it were sent to me on request by my brother for my essay on Hindutwa. I do not know, however, whether this whole book was ever published. These non-Hindus are Shameless, we Hindus, fight shy! निर्लज्ज म्लेच्छ लजै नहीं, हम हिन्दू लजवान् 679. The ‘Prithviraj Raso’ describes the Hindu-Muslim skirmishes and frays in the epic style of Mahabharat, and the poet has praised the Hindus highly for vanquishing Mohammed Ghori again and again and then setting him free to go alive, because this noble act of the Hindus, he thought, added to their glory! But when Mohammed Ghori again attacked Prithviraj in A.D. 1193, violating his promise that he would never again invade India, Chand Bhat wrote wrathfully, “We Hindus are scrupulous about religious