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

Awaken Nepal (1926 A.D.) या भूमंडळाचे ठायीं। हिंदु ऐसा उरला नाहीं। हिंदु राष्ट्र राहिलें काहीं॥ तुम्हा कारणें॥ The 19th of July was the twenty-first birth anniversary of His Majesty the King of Nepal, Rana Tribhuwan Veer Vikramdeo. Hindudom heartily sends forth, to thee, oh Ranaji! its loyal greetings in loving homage on this auspicious occasion. Some three hundred years ago, a hermit saint of Maharashtra went round on pilgrimage to all the four Mahadwars of Bharat Varsha from Attock to Kanyakumari, Dwarka and Jagannath. Having thus surveyed the whole Hindusthan, he came back to Maharashtra with a bleeding heart and bewailed that throughout the world, there was not a place where the Hindu banner could raise its head anew, no Hindu could champion the cause of his fallen race! While his heart was bleeding thus with unutterable grief and anxiety, his eyes caught the sight of a rising youth and his heroic band. Patriotic joy swelled in his hermit bosom and the prophet pointing out that heroic Hindu youth, with his brave band of followers, exclaimed. But there! Even though no Hindu is left throughout the world who could lead his race to greatness and glory, there in thee, oh Maharashtra, I discern some signs of hope in that heroic youth and his brave band! Our nation and our faith may yet live through them. या भूमंडळाचे ठायीं। हिंदु ऐसा उरला नाहीं। महाराष्ट्र धर्म राहिलें कांहीं॥ तुम्हा कारणें॥ Saying so, he handed over a gerua (भगवा) kerchief to them as a token of his divine blessings. The hermit saint was Ramdas, the rising youth was Shivaji and the brave band of his followers were they, who and whose descendants raised the kerchief as their banner and carried it to Attak till it came to represent the strength and glory and the mission of a mighty Hindu Empire. This was three hundred years ago. But if the spirit of that patriotic saint troubled at the news of this second calamity that has befallen his Hindu race, comes down to visit our Earth today, then standing once more on the debris of crowns and coronets of Hindu kings and kingdoms and reviewing with a bleeding heart, the whole