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

generals, too, with their battalions to fight under his command. When the
two armies met on the first day, the imperial army of Sultan Nasir-ud-din
won the field, and Ghyasuddin had to retreat. But the latter did not lose
heart. Knowing that depression of heart at this time meant utter ruin, and
that success depended briefly on enterprise and intrepidity, Ghyasuddin
rearranged his ranks and made ready for another battle. Fortunately for
Ghyasuddin, on that very day, one or two Muslim chieftains in the Sultan's
armies conspired to betray the Hindu Emperor Nasir-ud-din and let the
former know of their decision most secretly. Encouraged by this,
Ghyasuddin himself fell upon the forces of Sultan Nasir-ud-din (Hindu
Samrat, Shree Dharmarakshak). In the melee that ensued, the betrayal by
the Muslim forces brought about the utter defeat of Sultan Nasir-ud-din. So
the Sultan—Shree Dharmarakshak—left the field and started for Delhi. But
mad with victory, Ghyasuddin marched straight towards Delhi, and in that
hot pursuit, Shree Dharmarakhak—Sultan Nasir-ud-din-—fell helpless in
the hands of the enemy.
802. When the victor, Ghyasuddin, ordered the captive Sultan, Nasir-ud-
din, to be brought before him and charging him with the murder of Mubarik
and decided to sentence him to death, he asked the captive the last question:
“Setting aside the question of political expediency or the bid for the throne
of the Sultan and considering only the personal aspect of this act of yours,
what personal wrong did Mubarik do to you, that you might seek to avenge
it by his death? To this, the captive Nasir-ud-din (Khushrukhan) replied to
this effect: “Of course! He was guilty of a such personal wrong to me! For
the most heinous crime of inflicting homosexual and other unbearable
atrocities that this mean and vicious Mubarik had perpetrated on my body
ever since my tender age and for the humiliation that he had heaped upon
my life. I had long vowed most solemnly that at the earliest opportunity, I
would avenge all those personal wrongs upon that villain with murder!”
803. Thereupon, Ghyasuddin dispatched him instantaneously.
804. That was the tragic end of Shree Dharmarakshak (Nasir-ud-din). But
the last of the accredited Hindu Emperor of Delhi, the valiant Prithviraj
Chouhan, was also equally tragically murdered by the Muslims after his
utter rout in the last battle!
805. And the dountless Shree Guru Banda of Punjab! After inflicting
several crushing defeats upon the Muslims, when at last he fell into the
hands of the Muslim monarch, was he not locked up in a cage like a wild