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

defeat of Mihirgula and the extinction of the Hun Power on the Oxus, India
enjoyed immunity from foreign attacks for nearly five centuries.”
300A. It clearly means that after the defeat of Mihirgula at the hands of
Yashodharma and after the end of the Hun empire beyond the Oxus, there
had been no foreign aggression over India for nearly five centuries to come.
Thus the whole of India, right from Pariyatra (Hindukush), Gandhar,
Kashmir, Punjab and Sindh straight to Kanyakumari, enjoyed under the
Hindu kings, prosperity and happiness for nearly five hundred years. The
whole of Bharat was independent, powerful, wealthy and happy!
A Resume of the Ancient period in Indian History
301-307. If by the Ancient Period in Indian History, the one from B.C.
600 to A.D. 700—a period as large as 1300 years—and if the succeeding
period is called the modern, it is in the fitness of things that here and now,
should end that period so far as the subject-matter of this book is concerned.
Some of the historical points pertaining to this ancient period—which
should very carefully be impressed on the minds of our young men and
women and the general reader, but which are generally lost sight of, are
briefly dealt with here in this conclusion:
(1) In this ancient period, no foreign aggressor could ever conquer the
whole of India at any lime. This fact generally escapes the notice of good
many of the foreigners or our own men, while some deliberately neglect it
or pervert it. On reading such titles of Chapters as ‘Alexander’s Invasion of
India’ “Sakas’ Aggression of India”, foreign as well as native readers are
generally misled into a belief that the whole of India was overrun either by
Alexander or by the Huns, and lost its independence. Under this delusion,
many of the enemies of India and her so-called well-wishers have raised
such objections and propounded such theory as to mean that the whole life
of the Indian nation, i.e. the Hindu nation, has passed under foreign slavery.
It is to bring to light and refute this foolish and wicked charge and to show
that it is due to either unintentional ignorance or wilful malice, that such
theories are ever propounded, that this book has been purposely written.
So from the foregoing narration, it should be clear that—(2) Right from
Nepal to Eastern Sea (Bay of Bengal), the whole of northern and eastern
India and southern India, that is to say, practically three fourths of this great
continent of India, had remained completely independent of any foreign
domination for these 1300 years. No aggressor by sea or land could ever
reduce it completely to slavery.