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

even at the cost of their lives. The following account of a great martyr should suffice to illustrate the foregoing remarks. 845. At a certain town near Lakhnau (Lucknow) lived a Brahmin, named Buddha, who preached that whatever just and virtuous religious code one followed, so long as one followed it sincerely, was equally acceptable to God. In spite of all the harassment caused to him by the Muslims on this account, he propagated his views so very vigorously that even the Kazi of Lakhnau had to give way. In the end, the authorities committed this complaint to the Sultan, Shikandarkhan, thereupon, had a full-dress debate between this Brahmin and nine other learned moulavis. But the Brahmin, loyal as he was to his own religion and to truth, would not give in. So the Sultan himself threatened him: “Be a Muslim or you will be put to instant death.” And as the said Brahmin spurned his threat, he was killed forthwith. Rana Sang 846. After the death of Shikandar Lodi in A.D. 1517 his son Ibrahim Lodi ascended the tottering throne of the Sultan of Delhi. For the disintegrating Muslim power at Delhi experienced excruciating death pangs at the hands of the Rajputs of the time, who had in Rana Sang a very great, valiant leader. Even the smaller Muslim rulers took great offence at the brave deeds of Rana Sang. The ruler of Idar expressed his malice against Rana Sang by naming a dog at his door Sangrana. In order to chastise this monkeying of the Muslims, Rana Sang marched with a large army against Idar, and vanquishing them completely at every place, he avenged in full the wrongs done to the Hindus. This battle caused no harm to the Hindus round about. On the contrary, they looked upon him with evident pride and pleasure as their Godsend saviour and protector. Registering his conquests over the Muslim foes at every place with triumphal marches amidst popular applause, the loud beats of his war-drums and the gay fluttering of his victorious flag, he returned to Chitod in A.D. 1519. He had, by this time, liberated Ratanbhor, Gagrone, Walpi (Kalpi?), Bhilsa and Chanderi from the Muslim domination and annexed them to his own kingdom. Defeat of Sultan Ibrahim lodi by Rana Sang in the battle of Khanoli 846A. In order to improve the decaying condition of the Muslim power, constantly harmed by the Rajputs, Sultan Ibrahim Lodi gathered all his strength and invaded Rana Sang. The two parties joined battle at Khanoli, where in a bloody action, Rana Sang put to rout the Sultan’s army and sent him back to Delhi downcast and crestfallen.