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

and loud. As soon as the sound rang out, the blinded Emperor Prithviraj took an unmistakable aim at the pan concerned and hit the mark. As this feat was repeated with exceptional accuracy of aim for twenty-one times, the whole court was thrilled with wonder and admiration and the clapping of hands went on unceasingly and finally the Sultan himself shouted aloud ‘shabas’ shabas’—bravo, bravo!! At that very moment, the captive Chand Bhat sitting near Prithviraj composed a couplet (दोहा) on the spur of the moment, telling Prithviraj to shoot, without wasting a moment, the Sultan sitting at a particular distance, shouting ‘shabas, shabas—Bravo, bravo’. At this, the blinded Emperor Prithviraj took an aim in the direction of the Sultan shouting ‘Shabas, Shabas’ and killed him with a sharp arrow. At once, there was an uproar and confusion everywhere, but before the guards of the Sultan could fall upon them with their weapons, Prithviraj and Chand Bhat drew out their own swords and cut off their own heads! The Slave Dynasty 688. Soon after the death of Mohammed Ghori, his slave (governor) administrator in India, Kutubuddin, himself became the Sultan and established his independent kingdom at Delhi. Kutubuddin was a Turk by birth, but as he was a slave of Mohammed Ghori, his dynasty is called the Slave Dynasty. The fictitious story of Kutubminar 689. The legend that he built the famous Kutubminar as a memorial to his victory is altogether false. This pillar of victory was built as Vishnu stambh —the pillar of Vishnu—by a certain Hindu emperor, most probably by Samudra Gupta and was dedicated to Lord Vishnu. Recent excavations have discovered an ancient idol of Shree Vishnu near the pillar, which supports the above assertion. Thereafter, Prithviraj Chouhan improved it to a great extent, so in the Rajput period it was sometimes called Prithvistambh. The Muslims had grown very much fond of obliterating the names and all other traces of the old monuments and stamping them with their own seals wherever they went on with their expeditions. Hence in India, too, they changed the old original names of the capitals they conquered, the holy places of pilgrimage, the important sites, works of art and gave them all their Muslim names. According to this mischievous habit, Kutubuddin named this very monument of Vishnustambh, Kutubminar. At many places on that pillar, he got the hymns and aphorisms from the Koran engraved in Arabic, and added some new features to the pillar here and there. But the