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

accounts written by the Rajput Bhats, Charans in their heroic and, to some
exent, poetic style and known in that region as ‘Rasos’. But it is doubtful
whether amongst our historians, there be five or at the most ten such as have
read them with any scientific curiosity! That is why none of the histories
written of the Rajputs of the times or, for that matter of the whole Hindu
society of that age, with the solitary exception of that of Col. Tod, really
deserves to be truly called histories. They are mere translations or
transliterations of stray incoherent remarks and disconnected and perverted
accounts of the Muslim or the English writers. Independent ‘Rasos’ seem to
have been composed on valiant Rajput Ranas, proud of their religion
(Hamir Raso, Chhatrasal Raso, etc.). The ‘Rasos’ are not pure,
unadulterated histories! But the forceful and vivid descriptions of the
various events, their high fervour and the fact of their authors’ participation
to a lesser or greater degree, in those particular historical events, make
those grand incidents live, as it were, before the imagination of the reader,
as the above-mentioned sketchy outlines of chronological accounts can
never do. ‘Prithviraj Raso’ by the famous Chand Bhat, who was in the pay
of Prithviraj, bears out the above remark by its epic serenity, calm dignity
and moving pathos in the descriptions of the Hindus of the time and of its
account of the first Muslim raids from the north-west.
677. The Story of the fire race (अग्नि-कुल)
678. The Nagari Pracharini Sabha had undertaken to republish this
‘Prithviraj Raso’ in 1922-23, when 1 was in prison at Ratnagiri, where
some parts of it were sent to me on request by my brother for my essay on
Hindutwa. I do not know, however, whether this whole book was ever
published.
These non-Hindus are Shameless, we Hindus, fight shy!
निर्लज्ज म्लेच्छ लजै नहीं, हम हिन्दू लजवान्
679. The ‘Prithviraj Raso’ describes the Hindu-Muslim skirmishes and
frays in the epic style of Mahabharat, and the poet has praised the Hindus
highly for vanquishing Mohammed Ghori again and again and then setting
him free to go alive, because this noble act of the Hindus, he thought, added
to their glory! But when Mohammed Ghori again attacked Prithviraj in
A.D. 1193, violating his promise that he would never again invade India,
Chand Bhat wrote wrathfully, “We Hindus are scrupulous about religious