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

such?” Even to this question, no one can proudly say today: “Why not?
Here I am their direct descendant.”
309. But if the awe-stricken Angel asks again, “Well, tell me at least, if
there is any yet left of those Hindus who fought bravely with all these
foreign aggressors and ruled over India?” Then the answer, “Yes, I am that
Hindu! I am he! would spring from more than three hundred million mouths
in this country and prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the deep-rooted
foundations and the grand edifice of the Hindu nation and the Hindu State!
310. So this can be fittingly called The 4th Glorious Epoch of Indian
History, glittering in the lustrous martial achievements of the most daring
and successful emperor, YASHODHARMA!
“The Mohamedan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in
history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a
precarious thing, whose delicate complex of order and liberty, culture and
peace may at any time be overthrown by barbarians invading from without
or multiplying within.”
— Will Durant: Story of Civilization.
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