भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
DevanagariHindipublished494 पृष्ठ
पृष्ठ 23, कुल 494 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंपृष्ठ 23
- However loudly and pompously Alexander might have swaggered
with his mouth, the fact remains that the Greek soldiers took a fright of the
Youdheyas and others beyond the Vyas and, hence, Alexander could not
dare cross that river! Indian valour had taken the conceit out of the haughty
spirit of the advancing Greek army, and so they had to strike a retreat.
Alexander did not retire willingly. The Greeks proved to be powerless
before the Indians, and, hence, was this ignoble retreat! To hide this simple
fact, the Greek and European historians write, “Had he but crossed the
Vyas, Alexander would have defeated not only the Youdheyas but the
Magadha empire also. The Youdheyas and the Magadhas had never
actually defeated the Greek army of Alexander on the open battlefield.
These boastful ‘ifs’ and ‘whens’ can be answered most aptly on behalf of
the valorous Indian Youdheyas in some such way:
का कथा बाण संधाने ज्या शब्देनैव दूरतः।
हुंकारेणैव धनुषः सहि विघ्नान्यपोहति॥
—Kalidas Shakuntalam, Act 3 Shloka 1
(“Why fight with an enemy who flees away at the mere twang of our
bow.”) - Again, this typical itch of the Greek army for fighting in the open field
was to be allayed for ever by the Indian military strength a little later! Soon
Chandragupta was to make his entry on the military stage of India. Wait a
bit, O you, reader!
Alexander builds a powerful Navy - Soon after his retreat from the Vyas, Alexander had five to six hundred
warships built in order to make his way to the sea along the course of the
Indus. Embarking thousands of his well-equipped warriors on these
warships, he began to march off to the sea through the river. About the
commencement of this voyage of Alexander along the waters of the Indus,
arrived the two fresh regiments of forces, ordered from Babylon and
Greece. Naturally, the heretofore war-weary and rebellious Greek soldiers
of Alexander were cheered up once more. - But while Alexander was making his way towards the sea after striking
an ‘honourable’ retreat from the Vyas, a very great political conspiracy
began to shape itself most secretly throughout the Greek-trodden Indian
territory from the banks of the Vyas right up to Gandhar. But of that
conspiracy, we shall have occasion to speak in a more detailed way a little