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

brave soldiers, mad with victory after victory, had been so much impressed
by the unbroken chain of Alexander’s conquests, that they looked upon this
great General and Emperor as a divine being. Alexander himself began to
pose as the son of the Greek God, Zeus.
Geographical Dimensions of India
11. In those days, some two-thousand-and-five hundred years ago, the
Indian community and Indian kingdoms had spread far beyond the Indus,
right up to the boundary of Persia. The mountain range known today as the
Hindukush was at that time called Paropnisus by the Greeks. The modern
Afghanistan was called Gandhar, known in Indian tradition by the name
Afghanistan, while the river Kabul has been called Kubha in our ancient
literature. Throughout the whole region up to the Hindukush mountain, ruled
peacefully various states, some small, others large. Right from these Indian
states, all along the banks of the Indus, straight up to the place where it leaps
into the sea, was a long and unbroken chain of Indian states, which strictly
followed the Vedic religion. Most of them were republics and were then
called ‘Ganas’ or ‘Ganarajyas’. Their constitution was essentially
democratic. There were only two or three monarchies worth the name, one
of which, the biggest and strongest, was ruled by a Pourav King, whom the
Greeks called Porus.
Dr. Jayaswal’s ‘Hindu Polity’
12. Dr. Jayaswal, one of the prominent members of the revolutionary
party, ‘Abhinava Bharat’, during the critical years of 1907-1910, and later
on a world-famous Orientalist, has given, after a critical research, a very
detailed account of the different ‘Bharateeya Ganas’, spread along both the
banks of the Indus right up to its confluence with the sea.
13. According to Greek mythologies, they seem to have believed that their
ancestors had migrated as a separate branch of the original Aryan stock
from Gandhar and other regions beyond the Indus. When Alexander’s
forces entered the precincts of India, they accidentally came across a small
community of people who called themselves the original Greeks. They had
been completely merged with the Indians, but as soon as they saw this
Greek army, they avowed that they were the ancient brethren of those
Greeks. Alexander, too, was led to believe that India must be the original
abode of his ancestors. He and his whole army were so much delighted at
the sight of this, their antique fatherland, that they stopped fighting for some