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

generals, too, with their battalions to fight under his command. When the two armies met on the first day, the imperial army of Sultan Nasir-ud-din won the field, and Ghyasuddin had to retreat. But the latter did not lose heart. Knowing that depression of heart at this time meant utter ruin, and that success depended briefly on enterprise and intrepidity, Ghyasuddin rearranged his ranks and made ready for another battle. Fortunately for Ghyasuddin, on that very day, one or two Muslim chieftains in the Sultan's armies conspired to betray the Hindu Emperor Nasir-ud-din and let the former know of their decision most secretly. Encouraged by this, Ghyasuddin himself fell upon the forces of Sultan Nasir-ud-din (Hindu Samrat, Shree Dharmarakshak). In the melee that ensued, the betrayal by the Muslim forces brought about the utter defeat of Sultan Nasir-ud-din. So the Sultan—Shree Dharmarakshak—left the field and started for Delhi. But mad with victory, Ghyasuddin marched straight towards Delhi, and in that hot pursuit, Shree Dharmarakhak—Sultan Nasir-ud-din-—fell helpless in the hands of the enemy. 802. When the victor, Ghyasuddin, ordered the captive Sultan, Nasir-ud- din, to be brought before him and charging him with the murder of Mubarik and decided to sentence him to death, he asked the captive the last question: “Setting aside the question of political expediency or the bid for the throne of the Sultan and considering only the personal aspect of this act of yours, what personal wrong did Mubarik do to you, that you might seek to avenge it by his death? To this, the captive Nasir-ud-din (Khushrukhan) replied to this effect: “Of course! He was guilty of a such personal wrong to me! For the most heinous crime of inflicting homosexual and other unbearable atrocities that this mean and vicious Mubarik had perpetrated on my body ever since my tender age and for the humiliation that he had heaped upon my life. I had long vowed most solemnly that at the earliest opportunity, I would avenge all those personal wrongs upon that villain with murder!” 803. Thereupon, Ghyasuddin dispatched him instantaneously. 804. That was the tragic end of Shree Dharmarakshak (Nasir-ud-din). But the last of the accredited Hindu Emperor of Delhi, the valiant Prithviraj Chouhan, was also equally tragically murdered by the Muslims after his utter rout in the last battle! 805. And the dountless Shree Guru Banda of Punjab! After inflicting several crushing defeats upon the Muslims, when at last he fell into the hands of the Muslim monarch, was he not locked up in a cage like a wild