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

Golden Page in Hindu history and that day is truly the Red Letter Day in the life of Hindu nation! However 1088. Just as a man on his deathbed, too, breathes a little longer and sometimes even makes a violent effort to rise in epileptic fits, but dies at last; or just as the whole body of the enormously long snake, twenty feet or more in length, gigantic in thickness vying with the broad trunks of the Vat (Indian fig- Ficus Indica) tree, moving dangerously at large in the forests, does not lie lifeless all at once in a moment, even if its head has been smashed completely, but keeps on moving convulsively and even at times seeks to leap ahead, yet ultimately, the dying body does die at last, similarly, in spite of the fact that the Marathas had smashed the head of the Muslim imperial power and left it gasping for its breath on the battlefields of the Indus valley, the moribund Muslim power did continue to make feverish efforts to rise again here and there for sometime more; that dying body did in fact take a long leap like that of the Panipat, but ultimately, it could not avert its fast approaching death. 1089. And in the end, throughout the whole of India began to flutter the flag of independent Hindu power! Not alone from the Indus but right from the bank of the Kabul river, spread throughout the whole of Punjab, up to the frontiers of Jammu and Kashmir, was established the Hindu-Sikh empire of Maharaja Ranjit Singh! Further on, from Delhi right up to Rameshwaram in the rest of India, was established the paramountcy of the Marathas, and to the north was the independent Hindu State of Nepal!! Thus, everywhere in India began to rule once again the Hindu political power: the Muslim power could not recover its fall! 1090. That is why it must be said that on the day on which the Marathas uprooted and flung away the green flag of the Muslim political dominance from the fort of Attock and hoisted in its place their own triumphant saffron coloured Jaripatka, the Hindus gave a really mortal blow to the Muslim power in India and caused its subsequent death! 1091. Even a historian like Sardesai, who was wont to make understatements, wrote: ‘All Maharashtra felt electrified with the proud performance of Raghunathrao and his bands having reached the extreme frontier of India and bathed their horses in the Indus.’ (New History of Maharashtra: Vol. II, page 401)