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

women, who have fallen victim to the religious persecution of the Muslims
and have been forcibly converted to Islam, by some form of atonement and
by repurification?” The verses in Deval Smriti clearly mention that such
discussions were held at different times and the authoritative and final
answers were given, and the rules of conduct propounded by Maharshi
Deval favouring reconversion. These advocates and writers of this new
Smriti and their followers declared as unlawful and irreligious in those
adverse circumstances, the very religious act of banning reconversion as it
was causing tremendous numerical losses to the Hindus.
Special Weapons for Special Occasions
477-478. In the armoury of our religious code of conduct, there always
had been very special and progressive weapons for meeting very special
and exceptional circumstances. All that was needed was a class of leaders to
use them from time to time! If in the initial stages of adverse times of the
Hindu-Muslim war, these special and exceptional weapons had only been
unsheathed and sharpened, Hinduism itself might have completey routed
Islam from the Indian soil, as it happened when the valiant (because they
were attacking the enemy!) and victory-longing gods and the Aryans fought
with the demons (dashyus). Even if the same religious resplendence was not
uniformly shown by the Hindus, it was, in some measure, seen in the
revolutionary religious reforms of Deval Maharshi of Sindh. Maharshi
Deval is said to have lived sometime between A.D. 800 to A.D. 900.
479. Because of this religious resplendence alone, Deval Maharshi could
kick away the traditional religious ban on redemption for the unwilling
converts and propounded in his Smriti, an expedient of atonement for the
sin of conversion. It has been laid down in the Deval Smriti, that if, within a
certain period of his or her forcible conversion to Islam, a Hindu man or
woman showed his or her desire to be reconverted to Hinduism with due
atonement, he or she was to be administered simple and practical penance
of fast or something else and absorbed once again in the Hindu society. The
liberal attitude of this Smriti towards women, in the context of the times is
specially laudable. It enjoined that the women forcibly converted to Islam,
or those who served in the Muslim households as menial servants or slaves,
be considered pure after their next menses and should be completely
absorbed in the Hindu community. Even a pregnant Hindu woman, freed
from the Muslim bondage, was to be considered as pure as a bar of gold