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

one hand, he was spreading the Mahayan sect, this avowed Buddhist was, on the other hand, attacking his enemies with huge armies. In order that he might be called the Emperor of China, he passed ten years of his life in bivouacs with armed soldiers all round him. In the end, tired of his lust for incessant warfare, his army revolted and killed him. Death alone could put a stop to his insatiate lust for war. 242. One more thing to be pondered over: How could Kanishka spread Buddhism in the Chinese territory beyond the Himalayas? It was possible because he had first conquered those provinces with his weapons of war. Spread of the Buddhistic cult there followed his martial glories on the battlefields! That is why it spread there so rapidly. He sent hundreds of missionaries there, built various vihars, fed and fostered thousands of Bhikksus! All this was possible for him, because he had under his command a very powerful empire i.e., he had a mighty armed strength.Wasn't it? 243. In fine, it will have to be said that the statements like, ‘Armed victory is superior to religious victory’ or vice versa are untenable. 244. Without armed support, religious victory is tame and insipid, whereas martial glory without a strong religious footing becomes grossly diabolic! This alone is true. Hereditary Disloyalty of the Buddhists 245. A Buddhist or a Vedic Hindu, Kanishka was after all a foreigner belonging to the Kushan aggressive tribe, and had founded an empire on the north-western frontier of India by force. His empire was, in fact, an aggression on India. His was, not at all an indigenous Indian empire. So the patriotic Vedic population of India fought furiously with Kanishka, as it did with the Sakas, in order to overthrow his empire and to liberate all those Indian provinces, which had the misfortune to grovel under his political domination. But what were the Indian Buddhists doing at that time? They tendered their submission to the Mlenchcha enemy, the Kushan emperor, as soon as they courted the Buddhistic cult and began to perpetrate acts of treachery against the Indian nation and the brave patriotic Vedic people, who were fighting for her liberty! As has already been described (in paragraphs 204 to 209), the Indian Buddhists had, formerly in the time of Emperor Pushyamitra, who fought for national liberty, sold their loyalty to the Greeks led by Menander and others, and committed treason against their native land. In the very same manner, they