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

Mauryan era as per the injunctions of Medhatithi And that is why the
Kalingas, the Pandyas, the Cheras, Cholas and other Hindu states sent
powerful naval expeditions across the Western (often misnamed the
Arabian Sea), the Southern and the Eastern Seas, carrying their victorious
banner to the non-Aryan kingdoms, right up to the African coast on the one
side and the Chinese on the other. The astonishing fact is that while in the
north, Mahmud of Ghazni and Mohammed Ghori were ravaging and
plundering capital-after-capital and temple-after-temple of the Hindus and
trampling down their powerful kingdoms in the South, the colossal temples
like the one at Bhuvaneshwar were being erected. Kings like Rajendra
Chola marched with their mighty victorious naval forces, through Burma,
Pegu, the Andamans and the Nicobars and other archipelagos in the Eastern
Sea. They visited the Hindu confederate states in Java, Indo-China and
Thailand, conquered the Lakshadiv and Maldiva island states in the Western
Sea, and finally conquering Ceylon, hoisted their invincible flag on the
Southern Ocean.
496. It is doubtless that on the strength of religious authority of
Medhatithi, illumined by the glorious tradition of Chanakya, these
victorious Hindu naval forces conquered kingdom-after-kingdom beyond
the great seas and annexed them to the Aryan empire. This was
accomplished not on the hobby horse to tight conventions and rigid
injunctions which came into force a century or two before, but because of
the enlightening and guiding commentaries of Medhatithi.
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