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

his royal family was at Pattan, which he shifted later on to a new place and named it Karnavati, and it remained the capital of Gujarat even afterwards. 722. But later on, when Gujarat was overcome by the Muslims, Sultan Ahmedshah, who persecuted the Hindus most cruelly, changed the historical Hindu name of Karnavati to Ahmedabad in A.D.1412, befitting the traditional Muslim malignity towards the Hindus, and added to it, a newly built suburb. And the meek and submissive attitude of the Hindus of those times has been fondling that name ever since as their own. The first Invasion of the South by the Foreigners and Non-Hindus 723. Sultan Jalalluddin's nephew, Allauddin crossed the Vindhyas with a huge army without any permission from his uncle and attacked the south of India, to loot the fabulous wealth, of which he had so long been receiving tempting reports. This invasion was so unexpected and the negligence, conceit and narrow-mindedness of the South Indian Hindu Kings of that time were so profound and criminal, that perhaps it is after his kingdom was actually attacked that the king of Devgiri, Maharaja Ramdevrao Yadav, came to know of it, and being thoroughly unprepared to face it, was utterly confused. 723A. Is it not really strange that even while the Muslim states were being founded everywhere in the north of India, while they had been so very cruelly ravaging the Hindu religion and Hindu states for two or three centuries, while thousands of Hindu temples were being continuously and insultingly demolished, while Kashi was almost turned into Mecca, while Dnyandev, Namdev and other saints and their followers and millions of travelling Hindu pilgrims were going right up to the Punjab to visit the holy places and were returning aggrieved at the sad plight of Hindu religion there, while the Muslims were openly swearing and voicing their ambition to invade the South and convert it to Islam, the Hindu kings of the South should be so very careless and negligent, that instead of collecting their armies and sending them to the north to help the Rajputs face the Muslim aggression, Ramdevrao's forces under some of his chieftains, should have gone far to the South, and Ramdevrao himself should have been wandering most frivolously with his small army, hunting wild animals away from his capital? But... 724. Let alone Ramdevrao's state of Devgiri, but didn't even a single spy from the secret intelligence service of the four or five prominent Hindu states in the south go to the north and observe and inform his king or kings