१८५७ का स्वातन्त्र्य समर (वीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर - अंग्रेजों द्वारा छपने से पूर्व प्रतिबन्धित महाग्रन्थ)

LIT UP THE SACRIFICIAL FIRE
Maratha throne quick ! That the Fire of National indig-
nation may get more and more fed, fat and fierce, throw
the throne of Satara in !
The Gadi of Nagpur by itself could be but a poor offer-
ing for such a wild, warlike God. Hence bring ye, with
the Gadi all the empty palaces, elephants, horses and
the very Rânees too, not only with their jewels, rudely
robbed but with their shrieks and weepings and wailings
and in this Sacrificial Blazing pit throw it all altogether !
Even though the flames are rising like huge columns
leaping forth into the skies higher and higher yet they
must be lit still more intensely and fiercely. So throw the
lightning of Zansi in !
Ah ! Hear you not now the rambling so deep, so
roaring in the bowels of this blazing fire pit, this
‘ Yadnya-Kund ’ ? Surely some great explosive Revolu-
tionary Birth is getting into line, form and figure ! Feed
up, Feed up the mighty sacrificial fire with anything and
everything that is intensely combustible and at hand. So
throw the Nabob of Oudh in ! In with the Gadi of Tanjore !
In with the Nabob of Arcot ! Push in Raj Anguli, Sam-
balpur, all the Talukdars, Jahagirdars, Inamdars, Vatan-
dars in fact all those who can affix a ‘ Dâr ’ to their titles,
depriving them of all their proprietary rights and posses-
sions and making them all ‘ Nâdârs ’—throw in, throw in !
And now has come the time for Dum Dum ! Hasten
ye all, friends and foes, and bring all the new cartridges
in millions from the Dum Dum type factories spread
throughout India, dip them in cow’s blood, boil them in
pig’s fat and throw them into this all absorbing, all con-
suming Jaw of Fire ! There, from the white-heat point
the wild fire has risen to War-heat !
Dancing on the blazing flames out of the Sacrificial
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