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

must have been appended to the smritis at this time, i.e. after Mohammed
Ghori’s invasion. This time is also mentioned in that verse itself. The then
Hindu Maharaja—great King—who fixed this boundary, and who is
referred to here by the phrase ‘by that great soul’, must probably be
Maharaja Bhoj of Dhara (999 AD - 1054 AD), the greatest among the
Hindu rulers of the time.
Smritis and the ban on sea voyages
529. Although the Muslim political conquests in the north brought upon
the Hindu nation, this miserable calamity of narrowing the northern and
north-western boundaries of India, yet it was limited to the north alone.
The rest of India, on this side of Punjab, the whole of Sindhausthan was free
to assimilate newer tribes beyond Assam, free to be the mistress of the
eastern, western and southern seas and extend its rule right up to Indo-
China and win new victories. Sinhaldweep (Ceylon) was also a Baby India
—a satellite Indian state! For, the island of Ceylon had all along been ruled
by royal dynasties of Indian extraction! The same is true of the Lakhadiv
and Maldiv and other archipelagos in the vast ocean up to the African
coast, which were under the authority of the Hindu kings. It is foolish to
think of any order by the Smritis which claimed to follow the Vedic cult,
banning sea voyage at that time. The greatest conquerors of all the quarters
like the Emperor Rajendra Chola were strict followers of the Vedic cult,
and took for themselves the title, ‘Trisamudreshwar’—ruler of the three
seas—as that of ‘Samrat’ in the north.
Sea Voyage and Fetters
530-533. The verse, ‘अन्ये कृतयुगे धर्माः त्रेतायाम् द्वापरे परे’...cited
above, indirectly points to the reason why helpless Hindu law-givers of
latter days, labouring under political slavery, were obliged to clamp this ban
on the voyage of the three seas in the South. The reason actuated in the
north the prevention of crossing the Indus into the lands beyond, was no
other than the religious persecution of the Hindus by alien religious
fanatics. In order that the insertion into the old original smritis of new
precepts and bans, calculated to meet the critical situations arising in future,
might be possible, a new concept of the deterioration of the age and the
chapter on rules of conduct prescribed in the ··¤çÜß...Øü
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