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

has now come to be listed with universal approval, among the world’s
greatest scholars—including the western ones—was also present on that
glorious occasion. With the blessings and participation of such celebrities
the festival of that horse-sacrifice naturally came to acquire the dignity and
grandeur of the Indian national victory over the Mlenchchas.
Totally Annihilated Asian Greek Stock
200. After the Greeks were driven away beyond the Indus by Samrat
Pushyamitra round about 190 to 180 B.C. and India was rid of all Greek
dominance, the Greek race saw the beginning of their extinction. Beyond
the Indus in Gandhar and Bactria (Balhik), they had some small states
dragging on their uncertain existence. And about the beginning of the first
century of the Christian era, when a great tide of the fierce war-like race of
the Sakas from Central Asia dashed against Bactria, Persia and Gandhar, the
Greeks knew not where to flee in order to escape the terrible impact of
‘Sakas’ sharp swords. They fled with wives and children, the old and the
infant. At last, they crossed the Indus and entered India to save their lives.
But now they came as displaced persons seeking shelter! What a tragic
irony! This influx of theirs was a far cry from the triumphant entry of their
forefathers under Alexander and Seleucos! The latter rushed in crying
hoarse for war, while the present Greeks came in begging for shelter!!
201. But India gave them shelter very graciously in those most
unfortunate days, forgetting all enmity. These runaway Greeks settled
severally, wherever and whenever their separate batches could find any
shelter. Some of them became converts to Buddhism while some courted
Hinduism. But as Vedic Hindus alone had their states everywhere in India,
these Greeks, whether they were Buddhists or Vedic Hindus, were not able
to cause any sort of political trouble. They adopted the Indian languages,
Indian customs and swiftly, they were merged completely in the Indian
society. And because they had marital and other social relations with the
Indians, within a century or two, they completely lost the sense of their
separate existence as Greeks—the sense of their separate nationality! Just as
a lump of salt dissolves swiftly into the torrential current of the Ganges, in
the same way, their Greek extraction was totally merged into the tidal wave
of Indian life.
The Mlenchchas Merged into our Civilization
202. Most of the western historians, and our own too, have completely
missed one point in this connection, which, for that very reason, must be