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

beast? Didn’t red-hot iron pikes and pincers pierce his body and pull out large pieces of his flesh and was he not after so much torture, put to cruel death by the Muslims? 806. But is any thoroughbread Hindu likely to forget the gratitude that we all owe to those various Hindu gallant warriors for their glorious martyrdom in the cause of Hinduism, simply because they were defeated in the end? It is this grateful memory of such martyrs that becomes the perennial source of inspiration for the nation for ages after ages! 807. O You! Hindu Samrat ‘Shree Dharmarakshak! This martyrdom of yours, too, has become a freshwater spring of inspiration for the Hindu nation! It is to atone for the sin of failing to utter a single grateful word for you, to preserve some souvenir, some memento of yours, that the Hindus of your own times or those of the later generations have committed, and it is again in expiation of the sin of our Hindu ingratitude towards you, that we have most reverently offered you this separate chapter in this book. 808. Had you but chosen to remain a Muslim Sultan, you could easily have perpetuated the Sultanate of the whole of India down to your descendants, generations after generations, as it happened in the case of the Khiljee or Slave dynasties after Allauddin or Ghyasuddin. But with glowing respect and pride for the Hindu religion and the Hindu nation, you purified the very Muslim Title of Sultan, turned the Muslim, ‘Takhta’ into a Hindu ‘Sinhasan’, and slighting the Muslim Sultanate, proclaimed yourself Hindu Samrat (Emperor)! 809. After Emperor Prithviraj Chauhan, it was you alone who made a gallant bid to occupy the imperial throne of Delhi as a Hindu Emperor! In spite of your birth in an humble and miserable Hindu family; in spite of your being defiled and converted to Islam and made an abject slave by your Muslim enemies at your tender age, you became the Sultan of Sultans by the dint of your valour, your versatility, your military exploits, your arch- diplomacy and your adroitness in engineering deep-laid plots, and made the whole of India resound with the glory of Hinduism! We have done our duty to relate with proofs, your (in a way) peculiar life to the Hindu Nation and the world at large, so far as it is possible for us to do so. The Peculiar Character of this Hindu Revolution! 810. Although in this millenial Hindu-Muslim war, the Hindu Nation had been fighting on the political and military fronts more or less on equal grounds, using effective counter-offensive and tactics and ultimately