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

stopped forever, they were never able to establish a unitary and powerful
rule of all the Sakas anywhere in India, Whatever stray kingdoms they had
founded so far in India were unable to face successfully the two-pronged
drive of the Indian retaliation.
The Victorious Malavas
219. The above-mentioned Youdheyas and the Malavas attacked the
Sakas, who had spread round about Ujjayini. An allusion has been found to
have been made to the fact that the Malavas had invested the fort of
‘Uttambhadra’ round about the year 57 B.C. The then celebrated King of
Sakas, named Nahapan, had forced the Malavas to lift the siege. But soon
after, the Malava forces encircled Nahapan with his whole army from all
quarters. Naturally, a decisive battle was joined, wherein the Malava
republican army showed the limit of its valour, but not being content with
the destruction of the Saka forces, which were considered to be second-rate,
they killed in the war, their very King Nahapan.
Malava Samvat
220. Because of this crushing defeat at the hands of the Malavas, the Saka
military might’s morale was so much shaken that they seemed to have taken
a fright of their lives to face pitched battles with the Indian armies. This
battle is conspicuous in another respect too, inasmuch as the Malavas
started a new era of their own in the year of this victory, to commemorate
their signal success over the Sakas, which had resounded throughout the
length and breadth of India. They named this era as ‘Krut’, but on the coins
that they struck on this occasion, are inscribed in the Brahmi script, legends
such as ‘Malavajayah’, ‘Malavanam Jayah’, ‘Malava Ganasya’ and so on.
This is the Same Vikram Samvat of ours
221. In our country, good many emperors started new eras in their own
names. It was a traditional ambition, and a kind of right of such victorious
kings and emperors to style themselves as ‘Shakakartas’ (the starters of
new eras). The latest instance that can be cited is that of Shri Shivaji
Maharaj. He too commenced his own era, the ‘Shiva-Saka’. Most of these
various eras ended with the termination of these royal dynasties. However,
of the two of three eras, which have attained a national character and which
have been adopted by the Hindu world, although region-wise, and by
which not only our mundane affairs but our religious rites also are dated
for more or less two thousand years, the Malava Samvat should be