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

of blood of the Hindu men and women, children and old people, began to flow through every house and every street. Not a single young Hindu woman escaped kidnapping. Not a single cow was spared her life. The innocent blood of the cows, too, flowed like water. Those Muslim demons were neither satisfied with nor tired of this brutality. On the country, in order to adorn these devilish acts of theirs with their diabolic artistic sense, they travestied the ceremony of the Hindu Rangpanchami, which happened to be at that time. And how? Big cauldrons and vessels full of Hindu blood newly shed, were kept at different places at short intervals, and the Muslim solidiers with large syringes in hand went on drenching the Hindus in every street and every home in their own blood. The same was the miserable fate of the next town of Gokul, Vrindavan. But the moment he got the news that Rughunathrao had left Indore and proceeded with a large army to destroy him, that self-styled Shahenshah, Abdali, hurried for life to Delhi with all his army and thence to Lahore and onwards straight to Kabul! 1078. Although the very same Maratha force that had beaten back Abdali’s army straight beyond the (North West) frontier (of India) were now returning to the Deccan after glorious victories in Punjab and were visiting the same holy places of Mathura [wrongly spelt Mattra, CHI (1939) and by other writers] Gokul, Vrindavan, and while they were performing their religious rites and having ceremonial baths in the holy rivers, while again they were listening to the harrowing accounts of the Muslim atrocities on the Hindus and their religion, perpetrated only a year ago, while still the Hindu blood spilled profusely by the Muslims on the well-built banks (घाट ghats) of the Jamuna at Mathura had not yet completely dried away, while again the ditches filled with the beef of cows (slain by the Muslims) had been putrefying along the streets, the heads of this Mathura army were not excited with anger at these Muslim brutalities! Nobody of them was beside himself with shame and indignation! None of them was infuriated and none of them vowed revenge of this religious persecution! The victorious general of the Hindus, the brave Raghunathrao, did not issue any order to his army to the effect that they should retaliate with the same atrocities on the Muslims as were indulged in by the latter, that the Muslims as a whole were to be slaughtered, that just like (the ruined) heaps of the Hindu temples, the Muslim masjids should be pulled down without any exception, that the Muslim women should be put to the same indescribable humiliation and shame as the Hindu women folk were done by the Muslims, that it was their