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

enemies of the Hindus and looked down upon them with scorn, they had
fully realized that without the powerful support of this valiant Hindu hero,
they could hold no ground before their adversaries.
901. In A.D. 1543, the Nizamshah of Ahmednagar and Kut-b-Shah of
Gowalkonda jointly thought of teaching a lesson to Adilshah, the Sultan of
Vijapur. They implored Ramraja himself to take the lead. Accordingly, the
three together marched on Vijapur and went on slaughtering the Vijapur
forces. The most noteworthy was the fact that even the Muslims came to
know that the Hindus had been cured of the one hateful vice of the
‘perverted virtues’, which we have so far condemned in this volume
(Paragraphs 401 to 473). For, on the religious front, too, the Hindus
overcame the Muslims and in order to avenge the demolition and
molestation of the Hindu temples, they razed numerous masjids at various
places to the ground. The houses of Muslims, the localities and townships,
where the Hindus were persecuted and Hindu women were treated most
insultingly as slaves, were burnt and destroyed completely. This religious
retaliation by the Hindus struck new terror in the hearts of the Muslims,
and quite contrary to their age-old practice, the Muslim community no
more dared to tread upon the Hindu populations, as they would have upon
ants. It dreaded the resurgent Hindu society as it would have dreaded a
poisonous snake. Naturally, the Adilshah of Vijapur had to sue for peace
and to please every one of the three.
902. This temporary compromise did not end the Muslim feuds for ever.
The Adilshah of Vijapur felt sore about the two forts of Kalyani and
Solapur appropriated by the Nizamshah of Ahmadnagar. As such, he
decided to invade the Nizamshah in 1557 and entreated Ramrai to help
him. So now along with the Vijapur army, the Hindu forces of Vijaynagar,
which had gone out to help the Nizamshah, marched on the Nizamshahi
lands. Needless to say, that the very idea that all the five Muslim states
should seek help from the Hindu State of Vijaynagar thrilled the hearts of
the brave, while the common people came to lose their former fear-
complex about the Muslim might. In this war with the Nizamshah too, the
Hindu forces punished the Muslims in the Nizamshahi lands and avenged
the atrocities on the Hindus in earlier times on a larger scale and even more
sternly and mercilessly than before. Not only on the battlefield, but even
during their marches, the heretofore arrogant attitude of the Muslims to the
Hindus was also punished by way of reprisals in the form of plundering of