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

word Jayhar (जयहर) --glory to God Shiv! on her lips, she performed Jayhar—Johar! What of the empress, Sanyogita, hundreds of other Hindu women leapt one after another into the Yamuna (Jamuna) and drowned themselves before the Muslims could even touch or pollute them! 682. On reaching Delhi, Mohammed Ghori immediately set to plunder and destroy the royal palaces and the citizens with fire and sword to his heart’s content. Proclaiming next the establishment of the Muslim power there, he appointed a trusted slave of his, one Kutubuddin, as his chief administrator and went straight off to Ghazni. Later on, within two years in A.D. 1195, Mohammed Ghori attacked Jaychand. With his administrator Kutubuddin to assist him, he marched on Kanouj, where in a furious scuffle, Jaychand was utterly vanquished and killed. In a sense, the Indian King received a fitting reward for his high treason against the Hindu nation! 683. Nearly a hundred years or more had elapsed since the dreadful raids of Mahmud of Ghazni and as such their recollection was growing fainter like an evil hallucination or dream in the Hindu mind. So, with these two invasions of Mohammed Ghori, every Hindu King, Emperor, Saint, dignitary of every sort, down to the hut-dweller was shocked to the marrow of his bones at this miserable plight of Hindu courage and strength. Mohammed Ghori, too, was elated at this unexpected victory, and hearing of Kashi (Benares) as the holiest of Hindu places of worship, he headed straight for it in order to destroy Hindu religion. 684. The people at Kashi were taken unaware by this fanatical and bloodthirsty raid and, as such, had no arrangement to face it. Naturally, Mohammed Ghori captured Kashi in no time, started forthwith to slaughter Hindu men and women, to plunder the Hindu houses, to ravish Hindu women and specially to force countless Hindu men and women to accept Islam and slavery. Above all, he raised to big heaps of rubble and brick every Hindu temple and broke the idols within it to bits. 685. But he immediately heard the news that in the Hindu states beyond and especially in Rajasthan, plans were being chalked out of encircling him; and having the bitter experience of the united Hindu swordsmen twice before, he satisfied himself with whatever he could achieve during one sweep from Kanouj to Kashi (Benaras) and went back to Ghazni. As before, he appointed his versatile, brave and trusted slave Kutubuddin himself as the Governor of the recently won territory up to Kanouj.