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

Magadha and the rest of India, and how his aspirations were defeated. Alexander was brave; Alexander was a conqueror. But he was not a world- conqueror! Conqueror of India he never was!! If at all that valiant hero was really moved to tears, it was impossible that his tears should have been caused by the thought that there was no other country left for conquest. For, he himself knew that it was false. His tears then must have been caused by the sad realization that he was not able to defeat India completely, which he longed so much to conquer. On the contrary, he must have been much disturbed by the thought that even the small corner of India he believed he was able to conquer, was also very likely to be wrenched from his hands by the rebellious Indians! 142A. As it is said in the poem “Gomantak”: अन्यकुणाचा असो शिकंदर, परन्तु भारत जेता ना ॥ अंगण ही ना तये देखिले कला ही नाकुणाकुणा ॥ [Of whomsoever else he might be the conqueror, Alexander was never the conqueror of India! He did not even see the courtyard (of the palatial edifice) of India, and to many others, he was never known (even by name)!] Super Alexander! 143. Great men should ordinarily be never compared with one another. They are great in various ways, but if anybody tries to compare any such and extol the one to the derogation of the other, this hoax must be exposed and refuted completely. So long as Europe eulogizes Alexander alone as ‘the Great’ and tries to browbeat his antagonist, Emperor Chandragupta, by evading any reference to him, we Indians must need assert that if at all they are to be compared, Chandragupta was Super Alexander in comparison with Alexander! Alexander ascended the throne of a strong nation, already won by his father and commanded an army that was also formed by King Philip. On the strength of this ancestral inheritance, he bravely built up a strong Greek empire. But Chandragupta enjoyed no such heritage. He had not a single soldier under his command, besides he had been banished from his ancestral empire by his father! Only one man was at his side, it was Arya Chanakya!! Under these circumstances, he had to start anew. Yet he built up a mighty army, conquered the ancestral empire, and wiping out the Greek conquests under Alexander himself and under his general Seleucos Nicator, founded an Indian Empire mightier even than that of Alexander himself!