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

and loud. As soon as the sound rang out, the blinded Emperor Prithviraj
took an unmistakable aim at the pan concerned and hit the mark. As this
feat was repeated with exceptional accuracy of aim for twenty-one times,
the whole court was thrilled with wonder and admiration and the clapping
of hands went on unceasingly and finally the Sultan himself shouted aloud
‘shabas’ shabas’—bravo, bravo!! At that very moment, the captive Chand
Bhat sitting near Prithviraj composed a couplet (दोहा) on the spur of the
moment, telling Prithviraj to shoot, without wasting a moment, the Sultan
sitting at a particular distance, shouting ‘shabas, shabas—Bravo, bravo’.
At this, the blinded Emperor Prithviraj took an aim in the direction of the
Sultan shouting ‘Shabas, Shabas’ and killed him with a sharp arrow. At
once, there was an uproar and confusion everywhere, but before the guards
of the Sultan could fall upon them with their weapons, Prithviraj and
Chand Bhat drew out their own swords and cut off their own heads!
The Slave Dynasty
688. Soon after the death of Mohammed Ghori, his slave (governor)
administrator in India, Kutubuddin, himself became the Sultan and
established his independent kingdom at Delhi. Kutubuddin was a Turk by
birth, but as he was a slave of Mohammed Ghori, his dynasty is called the
Slave Dynasty.
The fictitious story of Kutubminar
689. The legend that he built the famous Kutubminar as a memorial to his
victory is altogether false. This pillar of victory was built as Vishnu stambh
—the pillar of Vishnu—by a certain Hindu emperor, most probably by
Samudra Gupta and was dedicated to Lord Vishnu. Recent excavations have
discovered an ancient idol of Shree Vishnu near the pillar, which supports
the above assertion. Thereafter, Prithviraj Chouhan improved it to a great
extent, so in the Rajput period it was sometimes called Prithvistambh. The
Muslims had grown very much fond of obliterating the names and all other
traces of the old monuments and stamping them with their own seals
wherever they went on with their expeditions. Hence in India, too, they
changed the old original names of the capitals they conquered, the holy
places of pilgrimage, the important sites, works of art and gave them all
their Muslim names. According to this mischievous habit, Kutubuddin
named this very monument of Vishnustambh, Kutubminar. At many places
on that pillar, he got the hymns and aphorisms from the Koran engraved in
Arabic, and added some new features to the pillar here and there. But the