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

word Jayhar (जयहर) --glory to God Shiv! on her lips, she performed
Jayhar—Johar! What of the empress, Sanyogita, hundreds of other Hindu
women leapt one after another into the Yamuna (Jamuna) and drowned
themselves before the Muslims could even touch or pollute them!
682. On reaching Delhi, Mohammed Ghori immediately set to plunder
and destroy the royal palaces and the citizens with fire and sword to his
heart’s content. Proclaiming next the establishment of the Muslim power
there, he appointed a trusted slave of his, one Kutubuddin, as his chief
administrator and went straight off to Ghazni. Later on, within two years in
A.D. 1195, Mohammed Ghori attacked Jaychand. With his administrator
Kutubuddin to assist him, he marched on Kanouj, where in a furious scuffle,
Jaychand was utterly vanquished and killed. In a sense, the Indian King
received a fitting reward for his high treason against the Hindu nation!
683. Nearly a hundred years or more had elapsed since the dreadful raids
of Mahmud of Ghazni and as such their recollection was growing fainter
like an evil hallucination or dream in the Hindu mind. So, with these two
invasions of Mohammed Ghori, every Hindu King, Emperor, Saint,
dignitary of every sort, down to the hut-dweller was shocked to the marrow
of his bones at this miserable plight of Hindu courage and strength.
Mohammed Ghori, too, was elated at this unexpected victory, and hearing
of Kashi (Benares) as the holiest of Hindu places of worship, he headed
straight for it in order to destroy Hindu religion.
684. The people at Kashi were taken unaware by this fanatical and
bloodthirsty raid and, as such, had no arrangement to face it. Naturally,
Mohammed Ghori captured Kashi in no time, started forthwith to slaughter
Hindu men and women, to plunder the Hindu houses, to ravish Hindu
women and specially to force countless Hindu men and women to accept
Islam and slavery. Above all, he raised to big heaps of rubble and brick every
Hindu temple and broke the idols within it to bits.
685. But he immediately heard the news that in the Hindu states beyond
and especially in Rajasthan, plans were being chalked out of encircling him;
and having the bitter experience of the united Hindu swordsmen twice
before, he satisfied himself with whatever he could achieve during one
sweep from Kanouj to Kashi (Benaras) and went back to Ghazni. As before,
he appointed his versatile, brave and trusted slave Kutubuddin himself as
the Governor of the recently won territory up to Kanouj.