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

aggression with still more disastrous counter-aggression. The weapon
worship religious law given by Acharya Medhatithi, became the most
effective guidance to the Hindus, like the Arthashastra of Arya Chanakya to
the generation of the valiant Chandragupta Maurya. To the whole of
Aryavarta, he wanted to teach once again the lesson of expansionism and
victorious imperialism. Medhatithi, the new interpreter of Manusmriti, was
the sole religious leader and perhaps the last of the writers of Smriti. He
tried to erect before the perplexd Hindus of the 9th and 10th centuries, a
huge lighthouse tower of the former Aryan imperialism and expansionism
of Chanakya, and to regenerate into them, new courage to push ahead
determinedly and strike hard at the aggressor. His intention was clearly to
animate his society with the vibrant inspiration to repulse instantly the
armed religious aggression of the Muslims of those times, in the same
magnificent tradition of the Aryan empires of old and with their military
strategy, in fighting down the aggressive rakshasas (enemies). He wanted
the Hindus to establish not only the old empire of Aryavarta, but to conquer
and annex the Muslim states even beyond the limits of Aryavarta and
establish Hinduism there, if necessary, even with force. The Aryan slogan
‘Krunvanto Vishvam Aryam’ (We are going to make the whole world
Aryan) of the Vedic times, resounds incessantly throughout his critique on
Manusmriti.
488. There had been a great confusion wrought in the Hindu Society over
a thousand years or so preceding Medhatithi’s age by the anti-national and
imbecile social traditions (which we have mentioned so far and will
mention hereafter), about the differentiation of caste, religious tolerance and
fear of pollution, which appeared as if laid down by the shritis (Vedas), and
ruled as per the injunction of the Smritis. The critic Medhatithi was the only
one, who on seeing the miserable plight of the Hindus determined to check
their downward course and convulse the imbecile and intellectually
stagnant Hindu society into its original Aryan form. Naturally, he decided to
criticise Manusmriti itself, which was considered to be the basic foundation
of all other smritis. He ruthlessly tested the laws of political conduct
propounded therein on the anvil of Chanakya’s Arthashastra. In this way,
with the original Manusmriti of the Aryans in one hand and the empire-
worshipping conquest-loving Kautilya’s Arthashastra in the other,
Medhatithi declared irreligious all the codes of conduct, which had been