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

religious code of every Muslim Emperor. In order to make it suit his
dignity, he even fumed and fretted at the slightest pretext and ordered a
horrible general massacre of the citizens of Delhi, so that they might submit
meekly to his rule over Delhi. Within a few hours, ‘true and high-born’ and
‘thorough-bred’ Afghans beyond the Himalayas slaughtered more than
eighteen thousand people, and according to the second universally
acknowledged notion of the time, regarding the regal function in
accordance with the Muslim religious code, he proclaimed forthwith that as
an humble and royal adherent of Islam, he would completely destroy all the
Kafirs and their temples and all religious institutions throughout India!
1059. Without any loss of time, he brought his horrible announcement into
action. Under his orders, the Hindu temples, shrines, idols and their houses
began to be pulled down and set ablaze. Emperor Abdali was particularly
infuriated against the several Hindu holy places like Mathura and Prayag,
which the Marathas had rescued from the Muslim hands. So he began to
defile them all, one after another. On such occasions, Mathura, which is
very close to Delhi, was the first to fall a prey after Delhi, to all sorts of
vandalism of the monstrous aggressors and stoically enough, did that holy
city offer itself, time and again, as sacrificial oblation, as any brave lady in
the famous immolation (Johar) of Chitod or the very city of Chitod itself.
But this time, it did not merely submit itself to the Muslim religious
persecution, without fighting, as it had been doing till this time. Although
detailed description is not possible here for want of space, it must be told
here that nearly five thousand Hindu Jat citizens fought to the last drop of
blood left in them that innumerable and well-organized Muslim army.
Every brave Hindu, who died, did so only after killing as many of his
Muslim foes as was possible for him to kill. After bathing Mathura in blood
and burying it under heaps of the rubble of its demolished temples and
shrines and idols, Abdali attacked another neighbouring holy place of the
Hindus, Gokul Vrindavan. This also had been the object of Abdali’s fury for
the simple reason that the Marathas had recently snatched it away from the
Muslims. In order to halt this monstrous attack, more than two thousand
valiant ‘Gosavees’ (Monks), from the famous gymnasium of ‘Nanga
Gosavee’, suddenly fell upon the Muslim army with a grim determination
to fight unto death. This assault of the Gosavees was so sudden, so well
organized and so ferocious that Abdali’s forces reeled back all of a sudden
at the first knock. Thousands of Muslim soliders were killed outright, and