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

The Authority of Circumstantial Evidence 812. In the science of logic the authority of circumstantial evidence is considered, at least in certain cases, to be the better mode of reasoning than inference, the word of the elders, or illustration. Especially, when the intentions and feelings or emotions of the engineers of deep-laid political conspiracies and plots are to be ascertained, circumstantial evidence is considered to be the only strong basis for it and it should be thought so, and rightly too! The written confession of the accused under their own signature can be refuted by the circumstantial evidence of bodily persecution and torture; so does written evidence! 813. Your life, O Dharmarakshak, therefore, has been based more on the strictly logical circumstantial evidence than on your own words or the writings of your contemporary and later day historians, hence it is based on solid proof. Even if your words are not available, your very act and deeds are in themselves far more telling. 814. The brother of this Shree Dharmarakshak (Nasir-ud-din) was himself a very great warrior and an able administrator. The original Hindu name of this brother of Shree Dharmarakshak is also not known as yet, for in his very early childhood, he too was converted and made a slave. When this Hindu Emperor appointed him the Governor of Gujarat, he openly accepted Hinduism and canvassed for it. In order to overthrow the Muslim government in Gujarat, he raised a Hindu revolt and sent twenty to twentyfive thousand brave warriors of his parwar (community) to help his brother at Delhi. What ultimately became of them all is not known to history. He too deserves place of honour in Hindu history. 815. And on the same basis of this circumstantial evidence, does that former Hindu royal princess and the Yadav Queen, Devaldevi, who was equally responsible for bringing about the unprecedented Hindu revolution of Shree Dharmarakshak (Nasir-ud-din) and who was his important accomplice in the secret plot, and who became, after the successful accomplishment of the said revolution, the Hindu Empress of Shree Dharmarakshak, deserves even a greater place of honour, like that of Devi Padmini of Chitod, for the unimaginable mental agonies that she had to suffer in the most adverse circumstances! She deserves the honour of a brave warrior Rajput Princess, burning herself on the pyre or in Johar! 816. Her end, too, is clouded in mystery! One of the writers of the time has said that she was provided for Ghyasuddin after he became the Sultan