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

Pullav King, Nursinh Varma, of the South in A.D. 642 and his kingdom was
conquered by the Pallavas. But very shortly afterwards, it was reconquered
by his son, Vikramaditya I, after defeating the Pallavas in a furious battle.
712. To this very Chalukya dynasty, belonged Vikramaditya II, who later
on in the 8th century A.D., sent a huge army to Navasari and defeated the
Arab invaders there!
713. Various such Hindu conquests over the Muslims are not even
mentioned in modern histories. History, of late, has become too partial and
vulgar. The various such incidents of Hindu supremacy and superior craft,
that have been mentioned heretofore, can very rarely be found in the
contemporary histories written by Muslim writers. Hereafter, at least Hindu
writers should describe such glorious acts of valour of the Hindu kings and
warriors after careful research.
714. The above-mentioned royal dynasty of the Pallavas was one of the
valorous and prosperous ones of the South. They had their capital at Kanchi
(Kanjivaram) for some time. At the end of the ninth century A.D., a Chol
king of South India itself, named Aditya, overpowered Aparajit Pallav and
subdued his kingdom for ever.
The Rashtrakuts
715. After the Chalukyas, the Rashtrakuts had established a prominent and
very powerful kingdom, bringing practically the whole of the South and
even the southern part of Gujarat under their sway. For some time, they had
their capital at Malkhed. By far, the most important achievement of theirs is
getting the famous Kailas cave carved at Verul (Ellora).
716. After the 10th century A.D., there were only two prominent
kingdoms in the South: those of the Cholas of Tanjawar (Tanjore) and the
Pandyas of Madura. Fortunately, we have the eyewitness account of the
political independence of the South, their prosperous state, and their
gallantry, by a third party, namely Marco Polo, the celebrated, discerning,
learned European (Italian) traveller and writer, who had spent many years
of his life in the court of Kublai Khan in China and who on his way back,
had at this very time, stayed for some days at Madura, the Pandya capital.
His testimony as to the Hindu mastery of the three seas and their overseas
empires, which we can find in his book of travels, is the most important. For
when he came from China to India, he came via Indo-China and visited the
Hindu states in Sumatra and other islands. At the time of his sojourn in
Sumatra, the island was ruled by one Hindu King, Shree Vijay, who gave