भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
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पृष्ठ 271, कुल 494 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंपृष्ठ 271
- Availing themselves of this miserable condition of the Muslim power at Delhi, the veteran defenders of the Hindu religion, the independent Rajput kings, went on setting free the territories formerly conquered by the Muslims. For that matter, the holy places of the Hindus like Kashi, Prayag and others hand, even before this time, been reconquered from the Muslims. But!—Although the political power there was defeated and uprooted, their colonies and their religious centres like their Masjids and mosques were not destroyed—as did the Muslims, whenever they conquered the Hindu territories, slaughtering the Hindus irrespective of their age or sex and pulling down the Hindu holy places of worship, so as to make mere existence impossible for them. But because the Hindus did not emulate the Muslims in this respect, these local Muslims, who were left alive and unmolested, turned traitors, like serpents fed and fostered as pets, and invited again and again the Muslim aggressors for help and made life miserable for the Hindus in those holy places and cities. But the Rajput malady of the suicidal generosity even now persisted without any moderation. (The reader is referred to the detailed discussion in this regard in Paragraphs 421 to 426). Rana Kumbha
- Most notable among the Rajput heroes of the time was Rana Kumbha, who excelled not only the great leaders of Chitod but even those of Hindusthan in respect of valour and success. He went to war with a powerful neigbhouring Muslim Sultan, Mohammad Khilji of Malwa, who had become independent by renouncing the overlordship (paramountcy) of the Sultan of Delhi, and in a battle near Sultanpur, vanquished the latter completely. Sultan Mohammad Khilji of Malwa was at last caught alive by Rana Kumbha. But grossly affected as he was by the age-old malady of the perverted sense of virtues, as the other Hindu heroes before him were, he allowed the Sultan to go free, considering it a noble act on his own part. Had but Rana Kumbha been taken captive by the Muslim Sultan, Mohammad Khilji, he would very likely have been deprived of his eyesight, as Prithviraj was, and brutally murdered according to the diabolic war- ethics of the Muslims. In fact, this diabolic war-ethics is the only one that is beneficial to a nation in such fiendish wars and hence is highly pious and thoroughly sound!