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

order at four places in the four directions of India: at Shringeri in the south, at Dwarka to the west, Jagannathpuri in the eastern quarter and at Kashmir to the farthest north. These religious seats (institutions) received full Government support so long as Hindu states existed in those various places. Having accomplished this wonderful work of religious propaganda and having written the (unparalleled) unrivalled book, ‘Shankarbhashya’, he entered the cave-took a living samadhi—(ended his life by restraining his breath). The Political Activities of the Shaivite sects like the Pashupatas 719. Even before this period was resuscitated, the Shaivite Sect of the Pashupatas, which being militant like the Shaktas, extremely hated the meek अहिंसा—‘non-violence’—and renunciation of the worldly life of the Buddhists and Jains. It fomented and fanned to red heat’, at least indirectly, among the Hindus, the tendency to oppose the non-Hindu religious aggressors and a love for war. Shree Lakulesh was their apostle, who was born in Gujarat and whose great work and Influence made the Hindus take him for the very incarnation of Lord Har (Shiv), and whom even Shankaracharya mentions proudly. Bengal during these years 720. Till 700 to 800 A.D., Bengal was ruled by the Pal kings, the first of whom was king Gopal. He was a Buddhist. He had from his queen Deddadevi, a son, named Dharampal, who ruled from 800 to 825 A.D. He too was a Buddhist and had been married to Ranadevi, the daughter of the Rashtrakut king Govind, who was most famous in the South. By about A.D. 1095, the Sen dynasty destroyed the Pal kings and founded their own kingdom. These Sen kings were the Kshatriyas from karnatak in the South, who had their silent access to the royal circle perhaps through the retinue of the above-mentioned Rashtrakut princess, Ranadevi. Whatever that is, as these Sen kings were the staunch followers of the Vedic religion, they suppressed Buddhism in Bengal and vigorously revived the caste-system, rendered chaotic by intermingling of different castes during the Buddhist period as also the Vedic lore and other Vedic religious institutions. The book on Sanskrit grammar, Mugdhabodh, written by Bopdev was very popular in Bengal at this time. The contemporary history of Gujarat 721. The famous King Karnaraj, who built the extensive lake of Krishnasagar, ruled Gujrath from A.D. 1063 to 1093. The original capital of