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

themsleves to be their religious duties! Every drop of blood in the Hindu veins and arteries was surcharged, as it were, with the false and suicidal and perverted conception of religious tolerance towards the aliens. The notion that whatever the nature of atrocities of the aliens on our religion, we should not, even for resisting them, retaliate against these very aggressive alien religionists, was the essence of their religious tolerance. And it was considered by the Hindu to be their religion! It is because of this suicidal notion of religious tolerance that Hindus, even when they had gained unparalleled victories over the Muslims on the battlefields and in the political arena, did not oppose them in the least on the religious front. Naturally, on this religious front, the Muslims in India were not extirpated, nor were they subdued. Root them out completely the Hindus never did, as they had done with the Greeks, the Sakas, the Huns and other ancient aggressors. 1074B. I should be failing in my duty if I were to proceed without referring to one more illustration of this incurable disease of the Hindu mind—of this perverted sense of virtues—which has proved highly injurious to the Hindu valour and Hindu political victory had reached its zenith in Punjab. 1075. Just at the time when Raghunathrao had started from Poona with his army and reached Indore round about 14th February, 1757, the malevolent Adbali had heaped untold humiliation and outrage on the Hindu religion and Hindu women. He had sent some of the cruellest of the commanders to Mathura, Vrindavan, Kurukshetra and other Hindu holy places, in order to avenge their rescue by the Marathas from the Emperor's clutches. Abdali had given these Muslim commanders strict order that— 1076. It was their religious duty as true Muslims that they should devastate every one of the so-called Hindu holy places like Mathura and massacre as many Hindus there, as was possible and to heap up the chopped-off heads together. Whoever from amongst them would chop off the heads of the Hindus as those of Kafirs, were to be rewarded by Abdali at the rate Rs. 5 per such Hindu head. 1077. How mercilessly those savage Muslims wolves, instigated by Abdali's order, attacked Mathura and other holy places of Hindus has been described in Paragraphs 1059 and 1060. Accordingly, the Muslims fell upon the Hindu religious centres at Mathura and slaughtered the innocent Hindus there. Gigantic Hindu temples were toppled down one after another. Streams