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

Golden Page in Hindu history and that day is truly the Red Letter Day in the
life of Hindu nation!
However
1088. Just as a man on his deathbed, too, breathes a little longer and
sometimes even makes a violent effort to rise in epileptic fits, but dies at
last; or just as the whole body of the enormously long snake, twenty feet or
more in length, gigantic in thickness vying with the broad trunks of the Vat
(Indian fig- Ficus Indica) tree, moving dangerously at large in the forests,
does not lie lifeless all at once in a moment, even if its head has been
smashed completely, but keeps on moving convulsively and even at times
seeks to leap ahead, yet ultimately, the dying body does die at last,
similarly, in spite of the fact that the Marathas had smashed the head of the
Muslim imperial power and left it gasping for its breath on the battlefields
of the Indus valley, the moribund Muslim power did continue to make
feverish efforts to rise again here and there for sometime more; that dying
body did in fact take a long leap like that of the Panipat, but ultimately, it
could not avert its fast approaching death.
1089. And in the end, throughout the whole of India began to flutter the
flag of independent Hindu power! Not alone from the Indus but right from
the bank of the Kabul river, spread throughout the whole of Punjab, up to
the frontiers of Jammu and Kashmir, was established the Hindu-Sikh
empire of Maharaja Ranjit Singh! Further on, from Delhi right up to
Rameshwaram in the rest of India, was established the paramountcy of the
Marathas, and to the north was the independent Hindu State of Nepal!!
Thus, everywhere in India began to rule once again the Hindu political
power: the Muslim power could not recover its fall!
1090. That is why it must be said that on the day on which the Marathas
uprooted and flung away the green flag of the Muslim political dominance
from the fort of Attock and hoisted in its place their own triumphant saffron
coloured Jaripatka, the Hindus gave a really mortal blow to the Muslim
power in India and caused its subsequent death!
1091. Even a historian like Sardesai, who was wont to make
understatements, wrote: ‘All Maharashtra felt electrified with the proud
performance of Raghunathrao and his bands having reached the extreme
frontier of India and bathed their horses in the Indus.’ (New History of
Maharashtra: Vol. II, page 401)