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

Thus Ended the Saka Rule
259. Having thus vanquished the Sakas completely, Chandragupta
liberated the provinces of Sindh, Kaccha, Sourashtra, Gujarat, Malava and
others under their domination and incorporated them into his Indian empire.
After such a total destruction of the Sakas, when Emperor Chandragupta
entered the ancient and renowned city of Ujjayini, which till a little while
ago was the capital of the Saka kingdom, the people there celebrated his
entry as a grand national festival. Samrat Chandragupta assumed the title of
Vikramaditya. In order to immortalize his glorious and crushing victory
over the Sakas, he renamed the so far universally current Malava Samvat
itself as Vikram Samvat after his own name (cf: paragraph 222). He made
Ujjayini the capital of the western part of his India-wide empire, and there
he lived like a crowned King.
260. How far can one describe the satisfaction and pride that the people all
over Bharat felt at this decisive victory won by Vikramaditya over the
Mlenchchas? The whole of India became free from the foreign domination
and became ‘Ekrat’, united under one King! How profound must have been
the joy and pride of Vikramaditya himself when he saw that the strenuous
efforts and successes and failures of a hundred-and-fifty years or so of the
Youdheyas, Malavas Vilivayankur (Vilinayankur?), Satavahan and other
great warriors for the destruction of the Saka power, and of the valorous
achievements of his grandfather and the national aspirations of Vedic
Hindus had, at last borne such glorious fruit!
261. Of this, the English historian, Vincent Smith says, though rather
grudgingly, “We may feel assured that differences of race, creed and
manner supplied the Gupta monarch with special reasons, for desiring to
suppress the impure foreign (म्लेच्छ) rulers of Western India.
Chandragupta Vikramaditya, although tolerant of Buddhism and Jainism
was himself an orthdox Hindu, espeically devoted to the cult of Vishnu, and
as such, could not but have experienced peculiar satisfaction in violently
uprooting the foreign chieftains.”
The Sakas too Vanished
262. In paragraph 230, it has already been described how the Sakas
adopted the Vedic faith, Sanskrit language and Indian customs and manners.
Now that Vikramaditya had utterly destroyed their political power with his
‘mailed fist’, they, hereafter, lost their separate existence as the Sakas as
distinct from the Indians. Only within two or three generations, there was