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

enemies of the Hindus and looked down upon them with scorn, they had fully realized that without the powerful support of this valiant Hindu hero, they could hold no ground before their adversaries. 901. In A.D. 1543, the Nizamshah of Ahmednagar and Kut-b-Shah of Gowalkonda jointly thought of teaching a lesson to Adilshah, the Sultan of Vijapur. They implored Ramraja himself to take the lead. Accordingly, the three together marched on Vijapur and went on slaughtering the Vijapur forces. The most noteworthy was the fact that even the Muslims came to know that the Hindus had been cured of the one hateful vice of the ‘perverted virtues’, which we have so far condemned in this volume (Paragraphs 401 to 473). For, on the religious front, too, the Hindus overcame the Muslims and in order to avenge the demolition and molestation of the Hindu temples, they razed numerous masjids at various places to the ground. The houses of Muslims, the localities and townships, where the Hindus were persecuted and Hindu women were treated most insultingly as slaves, were burnt and destroyed completely. This religious retaliation by the Hindus struck new terror in the hearts of the Muslims, and quite contrary to their age-old practice, the Muslim community no more dared to tread upon the Hindu populations, as they would have upon ants. It dreaded the resurgent Hindu society as it would have dreaded a poisonous snake. Naturally, the Adilshah of Vijapur had to sue for peace and to please every one of the three. 902. This temporary compromise did not end the Muslim feuds for ever. The Adilshah of Vijapur felt sore about the two forts of Kalyani and Solapur appropriated by the Nizamshah of Ahmadnagar. As such, he decided to invade the Nizamshah in 1557 and entreated Ramrai to help him. So now along with the Vijapur army, the Hindu forces of Vijaynagar, which had gone out to help the Nizamshah, marched on the Nizamshahi lands. Needless to say, that the very idea that all the five Muslim states should seek help from the Hindu State of Vijaynagar thrilled the hearts of the brave, while the common people came to lose their former fear- complex about the Muslim might. In this war with the Nizamshah too, the Hindu forces punished the Muslims in the Nizamshahi lands and avenged the atrocities on the Hindus in earlier times on a larger scale and even more sternly and mercilessly than before. Not only on the battlefield, but even during their marches, the heretofore arrogant attitude of the Muslims to the Hindus was also punished by way of reprisals in the form of plundering of