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

powers and go to war against this non-Aryan state, the moment we are
assured of success.
493. Throughout the critical treatise of Medhatithi, one dominant
aspiration makes itself felt on almost every page that the smaller states of
Shreeman Bhojraj—the Rajput prince—and other Hindu kings should be
united into a powerful kingdom and once again a mighty empire like the old
—nay, an invincible and victorious Bharatiya Empire—should rise on the
Indian soil. From this point of view, while writing about the other kingly
duties, he has emphasized one, viz. that even before the Mlenchchas (non-
Aryans) attack an Aryan state, the latter should march against the enemy
kingdom. Once you are engaged in war with the enemy, you should throw
kindness and generosity to the winds and crush the enemy outright. The
crafty enemy should be struck down with super-cunning and skilful
deception under any pretext whatsoever. In a war, the so-called virtues like
honesty, simplicity, consistency in speech and action and politeness,
gentility and generosity themselves prove fatal to the nation. Hence, a king
should not fall a prey to them—should keep himself aloof from them.
494. Medhatithi has most powerfully expounded this sort of stern political
theory (ethics). For, it was absolutely essential for saving the Hindus from
complete annihilation at the hands of the Muslims, because of their
simplicity. To teach them the arch-diplomacy of Arya Chanakya, was his
sole aim. Medhatithi plainly says that the Aryadharma nowhere decrees that
the Aryans should confine themselves to the boundaries of Aryavarta. On
the contrary, the pith and marrow of the religious code of the Hindus, he
says, is that if the mighty Aryan kings invade the non-Aryan kingdoms
beyond the Aryavarta and conquer them, and immediately spread their
Aryadharma there and finally establish their empire in those lands, then
even those former non-Aryan lands should thereafter be considered Aryan
lands and incorporated in Aryavarta!
495. At least some Hindu states of those times followed these precepts of
Medhatithi and like Chanakya's ideal disciple, Chandragupta, literally
crossed the boundaries of Aryavarta and waged successful wars against the
Muslim powers. Although to the north, the frontier Hindu states were
forced not to cross but to defend their boundaries, yet till nearly one
hundred and fifty years after the death of Mahmud of Ghazni, the Southern
Hindu states remained independent and powerful. So the Indian Hindu
States were able to carry out the victorious political experiments of the