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

Awaken Nepal (1926 A.D.)
या भूमंडळाचे ठायीं। हिंदु ऐसा उरला नाहीं।
हिंदु राष्ट्र राहिलें काहीं॥ तुम्हा कारणें॥
The 19th of July was the twenty-first birth anniversary of His Majesty the
King of Nepal, Rana Tribhuwan Veer Vikramdeo.
Hindudom heartily sends forth, to thee, oh Ranaji! its loyal greetings in
loving homage on this auspicious occasion.
Some three hundred years ago, a hermit saint of Maharashtra went round
on pilgrimage to all the four Mahadwars of Bharat Varsha from Attock to
Kanyakumari, Dwarka and Jagannath. Having thus surveyed the whole
Hindusthan, he came back to Maharashtra with a bleeding heart and
bewailed that throughout the world, there was not a place where the Hindu
banner could raise its head anew, no Hindu could champion the cause of his
fallen race! While his heart was bleeding thus with unutterable grief and
anxiety, his eyes caught the sight of a rising youth and his heroic band.
Patriotic joy swelled in his hermit bosom and the prophet pointing out that
heroic Hindu youth, with his brave band of followers, exclaimed. But there!
Even though no Hindu is left throughout the world who could lead his race to
greatness and glory, there in thee, oh Maharashtra, I discern some signs of
hope in that heroic youth and his brave band! Our nation and our faith may
yet live through them.
या भूमंडळाचे ठायीं। हिंदु ऐसा उरला नाहीं।
महाराष्ट्र धर्म राहिलें कांहीं॥ तुम्हा कारणें॥
Saying so, he handed over a gerua (भगवा) kerchief to them as a token of
his divine blessings.
The hermit saint was Ramdas, the rising youth was Shivaji and the brave
band of his followers were they, who and whose descendants raised the
kerchief as their banner and carried it to Attak till it came to represent the
strength and glory and the mission of a mighty Hindu Empire.
This was three hundred years ago.
But if the spirit of that patriotic saint troubled at the news of this second
calamity that has befallen his Hindu race, comes down to visit our Earth
today, then standing once more on the debris of crowns and coronets of
Hindu kings and kingdoms and reviewing with a bleeding heart, the whole