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

reached the Deccan. They had given Sultan Mohammed Tughlak the slip
and were now to embrace Hinduism openly. Hindu Samrat Nasir-ud-din's
successful military coup in Delhi had already given the impetus to the
Deccanese Princes and the priests like Shankaracharya. Naturally, with the
approval of Harihar and Bukka, Vidyaranyaswami and other Hindu leaders
decided to reconvert them to Hinduism with the ceremonial rites.
866. Our observation at the end of the Seventeenth Chapter that the
political revolution, which Shree Dharmarakshak (Nasir-ud-din) effected at
Delhi, had far-reaching consequences can also be proved by the influence
that great event exerted on the establishment of the Empire of Vijaynagar.
Even then, that great event has been so far referred to with contempt and in
insulting terms! It only shows that modern historical textbooks lack the
Hindu point of view, and hence they are merely blind to some such events!
867. The proud achievement of the Hindu generation which established
the new Hindu Empire of Vijaynagar has not been sufficiently glorified in
Hindu histories. The case of Madhavacharya, the Shankaracharya of
Sankeshwar, Vidyaranyaswami is the one in point. It has already been
pointed out how great a political revolutionary this exceptional personality
was! But the fact that he was an equally great revolutionary in matters of
religion, can be proved by his repudiation of the old traditions by re-
converting the two princes, Harihar and Bukka. In a similar way, he was the
synacure of the then learned-world. He wrote several treatises on several
subjects, of which ‘Sarwadarshan Sangrah’ and ‘Panchadashi’ are the most
renowned. No other abler Shankaracharya seems to have ascended the seat
of Shringeri or any other monastery after the First Shankaracharya!
Especially, his arch diplomacy and political wisdom seen in the rapid
growth of the Hindu Empire of Vijaynagar in the teeth of Muslim
opposition, bears no comparison!
867A. Indeed, the names of Vidyaranyaswami, of the warrior kings,
Harihar and Bukka, Harihar the second, who took the proud title of
Maharajadhiraj, and his Chief Minister Sayanacharya—the brother of
Vidayaranyaswami, whose critique of the Vedas is still accepted as an
authority, Maharajadhiraj Krishnadevray and the last but not the least,
Maharajadhiraja Ramrai also, who had inflicted crushing defeats in rapid
succession on all the five Muslim States in Maharashtra viz., Adilshahi,
Nizamshahi and others, but who was in the end, killed in the forefront of
the bloody battle against the combined Muslim forces, should really be