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

THE CONFLAGRATION
systematically misled the British pursuers by false
information.”⁹
With this sympathy of the populace, the patriotic chief
entered the Kaimur hills but was soon followed by the
relentless foe pursuing in his track. Still there was no
talk of surrender. Every hill and every dale, every hillock
and every rock, fought on with the alien till the whole
of the Panday army died fighting for the liberty of the
land, for the honour of their Dharma ! Died fighting,
yes, for not only the men but even the women of that
patriotic band did not return back to their homes as
captives and slaves ! The hundred and fifty ladies of
the Royal palace of Raja Shrimant Kumar Singh, seeing
that no hope or chance of success remained to them in
this world, stood before the guns, set fire to the fuse with
their own hands, and got themselves blown up into the
—Immortality of Martyrdom !
Thus fought Behar for its birthrights against the foreign
foe !
But Rana Amar Singh did not fall into the hands of the
enemy. Fortune left him, but his unconquerable soul
could never ! But what became of him?—Where did he
end his days ? Bewildered History echoes back, ‘ where ? ’
9. Malleson's Indian Mutiny, Vol. IV, page 344.
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