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

even at the cost of their lives. The following account of a great martyr
should suffice to illustrate the foregoing remarks.
845. At a certain town near Lakhnau (Lucknow) lived a Brahmin, named
Buddha, who preached that whatever just and virtuous religious code one
followed, so long as one followed it sincerely, was equally acceptable to
God. In spite of all the harassment caused to him by the Muslims on this
account, he propagated his views so very vigorously that even the Kazi of
Lakhnau had to give way. In the end, the authorities committed this
complaint to the Sultan, Shikandarkhan, thereupon, had a full-dress debate
between this Brahmin and nine other learned moulavis. But the Brahmin,
loyal as he was to his own religion and to truth, would not give in. So the
Sultan himself threatened him: “Be a Muslim or you will be put to instant
death.” And as the said Brahmin spurned his threat, he was killed forthwith.
Rana Sang
846. After the death of Shikandar Lodi in A.D. 1517 his son Ibrahim Lodi
ascended the tottering throne of the Sultan of Delhi. For the disintegrating
Muslim power at Delhi experienced excruciating death pangs at the hands
of the Rajputs of the time, who had in Rana Sang a very great, valiant
leader. Even the smaller Muslim rulers took great offence at the brave deeds
of Rana Sang. The ruler of Idar expressed his malice against Rana Sang by
naming a dog at his door Sangrana. In order to chastise this monkeying of
the Muslims, Rana Sang marched with a large army against Idar, and
vanquishing them completely at every place, he avenged in full the wrongs
done to the Hindus. This battle caused no harm to the Hindus round about.
On the contrary, they looked upon him with evident pride and pleasure as
their Godsend saviour and protector. Registering his conquests over the
Muslim foes at every place with triumphal marches amidst popular
applause, the loud beats of his war-drums and the gay fluttering of his
victorious flag, he returned to Chitod in A.D. 1519. He had, by this time,
liberated Ratanbhor, Gagrone, Walpi (Kalpi?), Bhilsa and Chanderi from
the Muslim domination and annexed them to his own kingdom.
Defeat of Sultan Ibrahim lodi by Rana Sang in the battle of Khanoli
846A. In order to improve the decaying condition of the Muslim power,
constantly harmed by the Rajputs, Sultan Ibrahim Lodi gathered all his
strength and invaded Rana Sang. The two parties joined battle at Khanoli,
where in a bloody action, Rana Sang put to rout the Sultan’s army and sent
him back to Delhi downcast and crestfallen.