भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
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- However loudly and pompously Alexander might have swaggered with his mouth, the fact remains that the Greek soldiers took a fright of the Youdheyas and others beyond the Vyas and, hence, Alexander could not dare cross that river! Indian valour had taken the conceit out of the haughty spirit of the advancing Greek army, and so they had to strike a retreat. Alexander did not retire willingly. The Greeks proved to be powerless before the Indians, and, hence, was this ignoble retreat! To hide this simple fact, the Greek and European historians write, “Had he but crossed the Vyas, Alexander would have defeated not only the Youdheyas but the Magadha empire also. The Youdheyas and the Magadhas had never actually defeated the Greek army of Alexander on the open battlefield. These boastful ‘ifs’ and ‘whens’ can be answered most aptly on behalf of the valorous Indian Youdheyas in some such way: का कथा बाण संधाने ज्या शब्देनैव दूरतः। हुंकारेणैव धनुषः सहि विघ्नान्यपोहति॥ —Kalidas Shakuntalam, Act 3 Shloka 1 (“Why fight with an enemy who flees away at the mere twang of our bow.”)
- Again, this typical itch of the Greek army for fighting in the open field was to be allayed for ever by the Indian military strength a little later! Soon Chandragupta was to make his entry on the military stage of India. Wait a bit, O you, reader! Alexander builds a powerful Navy
- Soon after his retreat from the Vyas, Alexander had five to six hundred warships built in order to make his way to the sea along the course of the Indus. Embarking thousands of his well-equipped warriors on these warships, he began to march off to the sea through the river. About the commencement of this voyage of Alexander along the waters of the Indus, arrived the two fresh regiments of forces, ordered from Babylon and Greece. Naturally, the heretofore war-weary and rebellious Greek soldiers of Alexander were cheered up once more.
- But while Alexander was making his way towards the sea after striking an ‘honourable’ retreat from the Vyas, a very great political conspiracy began to shape itself most secretly throughout the Greek-trodden Indian territory from the banks of the Vyas right up to Gandhar. But of that conspiracy, we shall have occasion to speak in a more detailed way a little