5th Glorious Epoch: Tipu Sultan, The Savage

Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History: Chapter XI

Tipu Sultan

• Towards the middle of 18th century there was no Muslim rival to Maratha Empire all over the country. 
• However, the Hindu King of Mysore King Chikka Krishnaraj Vodyar did the same mistake as others by entrusting his Muslim supreme military commander Hyder-alli. After capturing throne from Krishnaraj, Hyder Alli attacked Marathas but beaten down. He attacked English at Madras successfully. After his death in 1782, Tipu Sultan -1 succeeded him. 
• Tipu Sultan did the same thing, ordered to forceful convert Hindus to Islam, those who refuse, if man should be killed and Women should be made slaves among the muslims.
• He attacked Malabar converted thousands of Hindus. Attacked Dharwar to Travancore, hundereds of Hindus drowned themselves into Krishna river, many preferred to leapt in fire.

Maratha's Onslaught

• By seeing plight of Hindus, The Chief Administrator of the Peshwas, Nana Phadnavis ordered all Maratha chieftains to march on Tipu from all sides.
• Tipu attacked and destroyed two small Brahmin kingdom Nargund and Kittur. 
• Sardar Patwardhan Phadke, Behare Holkar, Bhonsale and other Maratha Chieftains defeated various armies of Tipu Sultan, and after rescuing the whole of Karnataka pressed him back up to Mysore.
• Whether to please Marathas or win back Hindus, Tipu started to visit temples, installed new idols, asked Brahmins to pray for him, etc, etc.
• In 2-3 expeditions the Marathas and English forces subjugated the whole Kingdom. Tipu was killed in 1799.
• How shameful, same mistake again and again and again. Even after winning and destroying Tipu sultan completely Marathas didn't did anything on religious front. Hundred thousands of hindu converted were  living miserable life, abducted women who are living as slaves were left as it is.
• Whats the use of such win which was just for glory but didn't care about the pain, humiliation and tears of Hindu society.
• English gave two sons of Tipu to Haripant Phadke, he found both of them were hungry so he gave them food and returned to English. He didn't even think about what happened to Guru Govindji son's when muslims found them.
• It can be said only that the virus of the perverted sense of virtues had been flowing through their arteries and veins for centuries together.

Ethics of war, like charioteer will fight charioteer, sword will meet sword, etc was perhaps quite suitable for the ancient times before Mahabharata. For both parties obeyed the same set of rules. The Pandawas themselves had violated, at the instance of Lord Krishna many of these chivalrous rules of war. But Hindus forget the lesson taught by Bhagwat Geeta.

Only few nations who defeated Muslims politically, went on to defeat them religiously and freed the land with every single muslims.

Emancipation of Spain from Muslims

• Arabs under Omayyads(711 - 788 A.D.) had overrun Spain and established a powerful Muslim state here followed by religious conversion. Countless Christains Men and Women violently and mercilessly converted to Islam.
• These oppressed Christians revolt under one of the Royal Dynasty of Spain, with the help of growing Christian nation in France and encouragement from Papal seat of Rome
• Many years of warfare during the 11th and 13th centuries, Spanish cleaned most of the country from Muslims and finally the conquest of Granada in 1492 A.D. they freed Spain completely from Muslim. 

The same fate awaited the Muslims in Poland, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and other Christain nations. They all rid their once Muslim dominated countries of every single Muslim.

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5th Glorious Epoch: Intermittent Hindu Retaliation Against Muslim Religious Aggression

Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History: Chapter X

Far beyond the frontiers of India, wherever Muslim aggression took place, natives there totally deprived of their religion. But in India alone their attempts were not completely successful.The muslim invaders from Kasim in 8th Century, Ghazni in 11th till 18th when Peshwas in 18th century overthrow the Moghul empire. Why then did the muslims fail to destroy the hindu society completely?

• First reason, the political defeat which the Hindus inflicted on these muslims.Initial stage, Bhim and Rana Pratap and other Rajput princess, next Hindu kings of Vijyanagar and Lastly Marathas dealt it deadly blows under Peshwas.
• Other reason, The warriors Men and Women who opposed religious aggression of muslim with counter-aggression following the precepts the Maharshi Deval and Medhatithi.
• Bappa Raval of Mevad attacked Sindh and muslim strongholds beyond it, annexed them into his territory. He married a muslim princess who was captured in his final muslim rout and kept her in his harem. Offspring from this muslim convert queen were respected as born in the family of Sun god.
• Raval Chechak of Jaisalmir married the daughter of Sultan Haibatkhan named Somaldevi and established her in his Yadav race.
• Kanwar Jagmal married daughter of Sultan of Gujrath after crushing him in battle, called Gindoli.
• Raimal the King of Marwad captured 600 Muslim women and reconverted them to Hinduism married them publicly to several noblemen of his court.
• Kumbharana of Mevad took all the captured muslim women to his kingdom after defeating muslims.
• Historian of Rajasthan, Major Tod and political history, called Rassos of the Rajput also mentions many such instances of conversion of muslim women.
• Raja Jayasthiti of Nepal avenged muslim aggression in same manner after defeating Shamsuddin the Nawab of Bengal.
• Muslim historical records mentioned that Hindu kafirs converted even Muslim women to Hinduism which is not found even in our Hindu historical books.E.g: Tarikh-i-Sorath mentions how King of Anhilwad at the time Ghazni carried away several of Turkish, Moghul and Afghan women.
• Arundevrai of Ajmer built Lake Anasagar. Whichever muslim convert take bath in this lake was considered purified and could enter Hinduism.
• Similar lake Lake Amarsagar built by Amarsingh Maharaj of Jaisalmir.
• Shree Vidyaranyaswami like Maharshi Deval and Medatithi converted brothers Harihar and Bukka and established in 1336 A.D., the Hindu state of Vijayanagar. He built Madhavteerth in Gomantak and performed mass reconversion.
• Shree Ramanujacharya disciples Ramanand and Chaitanya Prabhu of Bengal, Shree Shivachhatrapati performed mass reconversion.

A Counter-Aggression?

Under leadership of powerful Maharana Jaswantsingh and the brave Durgadas Rathod, Masjids were razed to the ground and Hindu temples were built. The Rathod armies cast pork in Masjid after Masjid. Hundreds of muslim women kept as concubines. The whole muslim society in Rajputana was horror stricken.

Smritis and the Ban on sea Voyages
After Mohammed Ghori's invasion, there was ban on Sea Voyage (crossing Attock) solely to save Hinduism as there was no armed support for Hindus. The great king Maharaja Bhoj of Dhara (999 A.C. - 1054 A.C.) at this time fixed the boundaries. It is foolish to think of any order by the Smritis which claimed to follow the Vedic Cult. Emperor Rajendra Chola a trict follower of Vedic Cult was called "Trisamudreshwar" - ruler of the three seas - as that if "Samrat" in the north.
The only mistake happened that the writers of these Smritis stamped them with old authoritative seal of "This is the old tradition" instead they should have mentioned as currently we don't have arm support to protect our ships so ban will be there till we get stronger to protect our interest.

On the other side in South brutal conversion by Portuguese missionaries was going on under threat of arms.

So, many kings and saints followed counter aggression on religious front. However, when a particular hero dies, his followers give up these aggression. The Hindu society in general felt no urgency of handing down to the later generations the anecdotes and legends of these heroic deeds. The muslim enemy always feared that even the Hindus also could avenge religious persecution on occasions. But still many Hindus didn't followed the aggression on religious front. Justification by Hindus of those times was that Muslim might have been more enraged and their attacks might have been more brutal.

Will see how these justification were totally illogical. It was only lack of will in Hindus which prevented this.

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5th Glorious Epoch: Super-Diabolic Counter Offensive The Only Answer

Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History: Chapter IX

As we saw Hindu society suffered tremendous numerical losses due to forceful conversions and many other reason discussed in last chapter. Its only due to prophetic social and religious reformers, astute diplomats, gigantic thinkers and philosophers the total extinction of Hindus was avoided.

Maharshi Deval (800-900A.D) 

• Both of these were critic of Manusmriti. They had pointed out to the Hindus brave new ways, new religious thoughts, new weapons which were calculated to bring them success.
• They found that the laws of behaviour laid down in different Smritis were in every way powerless to counteract the armed religio-political aggression of the enemy.
• Deval Smriti: Any Hindu man or woman if shows desire to come back after forceful conversion to Islam to be reconverted to Hinduism. Also, a Woman forcibly converted to Islam, or who served in Muslim households or a slave should be completely absorbed in the Hindu society. Even a pregnant woman was to be considered as a bar of gold after being heated in the goldsmith's chafing dish once her foetus came out after delivery.
• However, Deval Smriti failed to care about the children of these pregnant women who were handed over to Muslims.
• Still in these adverse circumstances this religious revolt of hundreds of Hindu leaders like Deval and others was not a small thing.
• Due to this Muslims were completely beaten down in Sindh on two front, political as well as religious. Within 30 years of Kasim's invasion Sindh was reconquered and for next two hundreds years resisted successfully all attacks.
• Above was written by Muslim writer Al Biladuri in "In  the days of Tamim".

Acharya Medhatithi (850-950 A.D.)

• The guidance by Acharya Medatithi became like Arthashastra of Arya Chanakya.
• To the whole Aryavarta he wanted to teach once again the lesson of expansionism and victorious imperialism.
• The Aryan slogan "Krunvanto Vishram Aryam" (We are going to make the whole World Aryan) became popular.
• He rendered not only all the silly 'codes of conduct' but even the smritis that called them caste-laws absolutely defunct and valueless.
• To invade another kingdom especially an enemy state - can never be an injustice in political sciences. Its a duty of King to crush the enemy before he invades you. Protection of Aryavarta is the supreme duty of a king.
• Even if neighbouring Non-Aryan kingdom is not guilty of anything and stronger than Aryan kingdom, we should ourselves form alliance with other friendly or unfriendly powers and go to war against this non-aryan state, the moment we are assured of success.
• He favoured an invincible and victorious Bharatiya Empire by uniting all Kingdoms small or big. 
• Under Kingly duties he emphasized once you are engaged in war with the enemy you should throw kindness and generosity to the winds and crush the enemy outright.
• In th war the so-called virtues like honesty, simplicity, consistency in speech and action and politeness, gentility and generosity themselves prove fatal to the nation. Hence, a king should not fall a prey to them - should keep himself aloof from them.
• At least some Hindu states followed these principles like Chanakya's ideal disciple Chandragupta, crossed boundaries of Aryavarta and waged successful wars against the Muslim powers.
• In North frontier Hindu states were forced not to cross but defend their boundaries. Yet after Mahmud of Ghazni for 150 years Southern state remained independent and powerful.
• South states like the Kalingas, the Pandyas, the Cheras, Cholas and other Hindu states sent powerful naval expeditions across the Western (upto African coast) and Eastern (upto Chinese) seas.
• Kings like Rajendra Chola marched with his naval forces, through Burma, Pegu the Andamans and the Nicobars and other archipelagos, Java, Indo-China, Thailand, Lakshadiv and Maldiva Island in Western Sea and Conquered Ceylon in Southern Ocean.

It is doubtless that on the strength of religious authority of Medhatithi illumined by the glorious tradition of Chanakya these Victorious Hindu naval forces conquered kingdom after kingdom.

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5th Glorious Epoch: Perverted Conception of Virtues

Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History: Chapter VIII

• Silly superstitions of the Hindus about the caste system harmed more than any foreign aggressors.
• To let go the vanquished and abjectly surrendering enemy is said to be virtue in some religious books. So enemies like Ghori and Rahila Najibkhan were set free.
• In return Ghori murdered Prithvi Raj Chauhan and Rahila conspired against Marathas who let him go alive.
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5th Glorious Epoch - Sultans of Ghazni

Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History: Chapter VII

King Jaipal

• Around 1000 A.D. Sultan of Ghazni, Sabakhtageen was preparing to attack King Jaipal whoose forefathers ruling the whole of Punjab, Gandhar right up to the Hindukush since the rout of Huns.
• Jaipal proactively attacked Sabakhtageen but repelled back. King Jaipal made alliance to defend but lost to Sabakhtageen and whole region beyond Indus river and Gandhar was lost.
• After death of Sabakhtageen, his son Mohammed "Mahmud of Ghazni" took the throne.
• Hindu Kings were again defeated by Ghazni in 1001 A.D.. 
• Jaipal preferred entrusting the kingdom to his son, Anangpal and burned himself to death.
• Like his father, Anangpal keep defending against Ghazni. In 1006 A.D., Ghazni asked him safe passage to Multan but he refused. Ghazni defeated Anangpal.
• In 1008 A.D., when Ghazni went to Multan, Anangpal organised army and attacked Ghazni. At one point Anangpal was about to win and Dghazni was retreating but unfortunately Anangpal elephant turned around and started running amuck. Ghazni took this opportunity to defeat the Hindu army but didn't persue Anangpal.
• Ghazni marched against Anangpal third time and this time alone Anangpal was defeated and killed.
• After this Ghazni marched to Thaneshwar and Mathura, demolished temples, killing male Hindus , violating the chastity of hundreds of Hindu Women and abducted them.
• In 1019 A.D., destroyed Pratihari Capital of Kanouj.
• In 1023, during his sinister visit to Gwalior and Kalinjar, the princes there helplessly accepted his overlordship.

His Dash on Somnath 

• In 1026 A.D. Ghazni assailed the famous temple of Somnath of Sourashtra with huge army.
• King Bheem of Sourashtra and Gujrath fled away.
• At this time, priest of Somnath temple vow to defend the temple and requested surrounding Hindus to protect the temple.
• Thousands of Hindus from far off regions answered the call and ran to the rescue of the temple.
• Instead of accepting Muslim faith to save their life they fought till their last breadth.
• At least 50 thousand Hindus gave their life to protect the Temple.
• After demolishing the Temple and loading the camel with immense wealth, Ghazni came to know that King of Malava is preparing to block his way to Ghazni City.
• So, he took an unexpected and difficult route through sandy desert of Sindh and Baluchistan.
• His army had to face many dangers and unspeakable misery.
• Hardly within 3-4 years of reaching Ghazni City, he died in 1030 A.D.

Change of Religion means Change of Nationality

• Millions of converted Hindus remain Muslim till date due to perverse religious concepts of the Hindus of those times.
• These converted Hindus belonged to various tribes became more and more fanatical after generation after generation.
• E.g: A Hindu tribe called Ghuri beyond Indus was forcibly converted to Islam later from same tribe Mohd. Ghori attacked India with utmost Hatred.

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5th Glorious Epoch - Beginning of Muslim Incursion

Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History: Chapter VI

Generally in all history books, writers jump from Hunnish onslaught to the first successful Muslim campaign in Sindh, without writing what happen in between period of more than hundred years or so.

It been projected that Hindus is nothing but a doleful tale of foreign subjugation and national defeats.

Dr. Ambedkar, writes with hatred against Hindus:"The Hindus has been a life of a continuous defeat. It is a mode of survival of whihc every Hindu will feel ashamed".

Since, 550 A.D., many Hindu kings crossed Indus river at various places and conquered area beyond that. E.g: Uttar Kurus, Khotan in Central Asia beyond Kashmir, Gazani ruled by King Sheeladitya.

Beginning of Aweful Muslim War

• Even before Mohd. Bin-Kasim around 50 years, Arabian Muslim had started to pick fight with Brahmins of Sindh. All these attempts were foiled.
• Usman, governor of Oman openly attacked Sindh. King of Sindh, Chacha crushed the Arabs and killed their very commander-in-chief, Abdul Aziz in battle.
• In 711 A.D. Mohd. Bin-Kasim attacks Sindh with 50 Thousadm strong army. King Dahir was ruling Sindh.
• After Hun King Mihirgula who persecuted Buddhist, under Vedic King Buddhist were totally safe. They were free to follow their religion.
• However, when Muslim invasion started they again started to see them to embrace Buddhist cult and avenge Hindus.
• Buddhist greeted Arab Leader when they captured Port Deval from King Dahir and appealed to him : "We have nothing to do with King Dahir and his Vedic Cult. Who ever rules here, we just follow him. We will never help Dahir in any way. So, we pray that the Buddhist should not be subjected to any indignities or troubles at your hand."
• Kasim gave them temporary assurance of safety.
• Muslim writers of Tarikhs testify that Buddhist in Sindh helped Muslim in every possible way, like by showing them difficult passes, providing food stuff and fodder, supplying them secret military intelligence.

King Dahir Dies Fighting

• Main battle happen between Hindus and Muslims in Brahmanabad. Muslims had no canon but new kind of weapon - fire-arms. Hindus find themselves at weaker position.
• Muslim platoons under King Dahir rebelled. They marched on their King Dahir and attacked him.
• King Dahir was keep on fighting on his elephant. At last he was killed and Hindu army was routed. Muslims entered the city in hot pursuit.
• After hearing King Dahir's death, the Queen and hundreds of other Brave Hindu ladies jumped into the fire (Johar). It was the limit of warlike spirit, the Kashatriyadharma.
• Somehow in this Dahir's two daughters named Suryadevi and Pramiladevi fell into the hands of the Muslims. Kasim took them and hundreds of others as courtesans.
• Looting and massacre of the Hindus and large scale arson in the city went on unhindered.
• Not only this but all city or town in Sindh met with same fate when Muslims marched onward.
• Muslims started to behead Buddhists as there was no armed opposition from their side. Vedic people were fighting in groups or individually.

Buddhist High Treason, Ahimsa

• Because of this Buddhist treachery, unpatriotic and anti-national stand they didn't get any support from politically conscious Indian population.
• In 700 A.D. the new Rajput kingdoms which were staunch supporters of the Vedic religion began to prosper but Buddhist started to decline, socially boycotted, weak and invalid everywhere in India.
• In seventh century King Harsha who copied Ashoka Institutes did religious persecution of Vedic people. Anyone who slay any animal or using flesh as food was subjected to capital punishment. (by Vincent Smith)
• Similarly, Kumar Pal, a Jain king of Gujrath imposed savage penalties upon violators of his similar rules. (by Vincent Smith)

Untouchability aggravated by the Buddhists and confrontation with Muslims

• As per Chinese travellers, some communities like Chandals who didn't gave up the violent profession were banished from town as untouchables. They had to form colonies of their own outside the town.
• If at all they had an occasion and were permitted to come to town on some market-day, they need to carry child's rattle or drum and beat it so that people can avoid any possible contact with them.
• So, it was not Peshwas who started it but it was prevalent from the days of Buddhist and Jain regimes. All these should be criticize in same tone.
• Thats why thousands of these people who voluntarily (or helplessly and under pressure) embraced Buddhism, now renounced it and joined Vedic religion again.
• This is also one of the reason Buddhism started to vanish from all over India even from the holy places of it. 

Majority of Muslims in East Bengal Explained

• Muslims massacred Buddhist in en masse as it was easy. Many Buddhist fled to Tibet and China on seeing Bakhtyar Kilijee march on Bihar.
• Those who accepted Muslim religion were spared.
• The whole of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, northern India right upto West Bengal where Muslim Sultan and Emperors ruled for five hundred years, the Vedic Hindus maintained their numerical superiority.
• East Bengal province had numerically more Buddhist who became Muslim without any fight. Thats how East Bengal became Muslim majority province.
• However, just as a stream separated from the river Bhagirathi should flow separately for miles and once again should leap as a tributary into the same Bhagirathi, the buddhist cult born out of the Vedic hinduism merged in the end in the same Hindu religion and Lord Buddha himself was established as the tenth of the Godly Avatars and was Hinduized.

After the fall of Sindh in 711 A.D., Hindu kings most effectivley checked the muslim advance outside Sindh for more or less 300 Years. But this Hindu heroism quite easily escapes the notice.

During Same period Arabs overrun Nations from Baghdad to Mediterranean, along north African coast straight to Gilbrater, whence they subjugated Portugal and Spain and knocked at the gates of southern France.

Bapa Raval from Chittod once attacked Sindh and annexed it to his kingdom. Arabs latter captured it again but ultimately Sumra Rajputs firmly established their rule over Sindh.

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4th Glorious Epoch - Yashodharma the Conqueror of the Huns

Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History: Chapter 4

Chandragupta(308 A.D. - 318 A.D.) -> Samudragupta ( 318 A.D - 375 A.D.) ->Chandragupta-2(Vikramaditya) -> Kumargupta -> Skundgupta

The Hunnish Onslaught over the World

• Huns routed all the Saka and Kushan tribe from their original homes and occupied the lands.
• These were fiercer and far more cruel than their predecessors.
• They use to raid in night as well with sword and fire. At the end of every bloody battle, they celebrate and drink liquors in cups made of the very skull of slaughtered enemy.
• In order to protect themselves from their terrible raids, Chinese Emperor built The Great Wall of China.
• This wall is indeed the greatest monument to Hunnish Terror.
• One of Huns leader Attila, organized horsemen who pillaged Central Asia and made straight to Europe.
• After trampling down Russia, they rushed to Poland, then Goths in Germany and France.
• They crushed Roman Empire.
• Even today most of European Languages use 'Hun' as the foulest of abuses.

Gupta Empire - Kumargupta

• But fortunately India was not ruled by coward like Dhananand who brought disgrace when Greeks invasion happened.
• It was now under the sovereignty of Kumargupta, son of Emperor Vikramaditya, the avenger of Saka-Kushan domination.
• He was aware of Hunnish onslaught so kept a very strong war-like and well-organized army.
• The moment he learnt of Hunnish aggression on Gandhar, he sent his valiant son Skundgupta as the head of four-fold army.
• Skundgupta destroyed army of Huns, but Huns kept pouring like ant form anthills. They fought battle after battle with irresistable Huns, destroying them steadily but surely for years together.
• Huns lost their strength. This kept them away for next 40 years.
• On return of Skundgupta in Patliputra, Kumargupta performed the Horse-sacrifice according to the age-old Indian tradition.
• After death of Kumargupta, Skundgupta lead the throne.

Second Hunnish Invasion of India

• Second invasion started under Huns King Khikhil and they overthrew the imperial frontier guards at one or two places.
• The moment Skundgupta heard of this, in spite of old age, he left his capital and marched as far as Panchnad.
• He keep fighting battle after battle against Huns.
• Skundgupta in old age spent almost 15-20 years last days of his life in camp on the western frontier to guard the border against Huns, even after knowing that his cousin Purgupta conspiring against him. But still he chose to guard the borders instead of coming back to save the throne. 
• This shows two things, first how much deadly was Huns invasion and second how much Nationalist Skundgupta was to protect the motherland and didn't care about the throne.
• After the death of Skundgupta, Purgupta captured the throne. Whose inability encouraged Huns to push again forward under King Khikhil.
• After Khikhil, Torman took the charge and razed the University of Taxila to ground.
• Torman pushed ahead of the Punjab into Malava (around 511 A.D.) and took its capital Ujjain.
• Mihirgula succeeded his father Torman, became a sincere devotee of the Vedic God, Rudra and held the cult of Buddha in the greatest spite.

The Patriotic Vedic Hindus and Treacherous Buddhists

• Even when this Hunnish aggressor Mihirgula accepted Vedic religion and brutally oppresed the Buddhists, who became inveterate enemies of the Vedic Hindus, the latter did not accept his political dominance.
• English historian Vincent Smith mentioned - "This strong national feeling of the Vedic people were the born enemies of any foreign political power, trying to subdue the country".
• Under Purgupta, most of the vassals and provinces began to rule independently.

King Yashodharma - The Hunjeet ( one who defeated Huns)

• At this critical juncture, Yashodharma, from a relatively small principality in the province of Malava vowed to take Mihirgula head on.
• He organized almost all the neighbouring independent Indian states to fight against Huns.
• In the battle of Mandasore or Korur around 528 A.D. crushed Huns for ever. 
• Mihirgula was captured and ordered to hanged for the atrocities against Indians.
• But Baladitya, the Emperor of Magadha as a memeber of Combined front insisted that the Hun be spared.
• Yashodharma did so only to avoid displeasing Baladitya.
• Baladitya not only spared Mihirgula but allowed him to go honourably to the remnant of the Hunnish territory to the north-west.
• After this Mihirgula hurried straight to Kashmir, organized Huns and killed the king, annexed Gandhar, persecuted people of the land.
• He killed thousands of Buddhist monks and nuns.
• Mihirgula died a natural death(540 A.D.).
• Yashodharma came back to Ujjain after this victory and became Maharajadhiraj.
• He erected two pillars to commemorate the victory against Huns.
• Huns were fully crushed within a century of Mihirgula death by the successive Hindu dynasties.
• Vincent Smith - "After the defeat of Mihirgula and the extinction of the Hun power on the Oxus, India enjoyed immunity from the foreign attacks for nearly five centuries.

So, during this Ancient Period in Indian History from 600 B.C. to 700 A.D. no foreign aggressor was able to rule India. Most of the land was completely independent. We can say from Indus river till Ayodhya, Ujjain and north of Narmada bore the brunt of  foreign onslaught in these 1300 years. But no one foreigner was able to rule these parts at a particular time.

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3rd Glorious Epoch - Vikramaditya, The annihilator of Saka-Kushan Menace

Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History: Chapter 3

 Huns from China were very cruel. They pushed neighbouring tribe Kushan to west which in turn pushed Sakas. Sakas forwarded that kick to Bactria Greek.

At the beginning of the Christian era Sakas occupied the Indian Territory of Baluchistan, Sindh, Kathiawad, Gujrat and some parts of Aparantak(Konkan) to the south, right upto Ujjain. 

Victory of Andhra and Malavas

• Andhra and Kalinga at this time were staunch supporter of Vedic religion.
• When Sakas crossed Narmada, Andhra marched against them and pushed beyond Narmada.
• Sakas was then defeated by Youdheyas and Malavas in North.
• Malavas killed Sakas king Nahapan.
• They started MALAVA SAMVAT to commemorate this historic victory.
• This Malava Samvat later on became our VIKRAM SAMVAT.

Origin of Vikram Samvat and Shalivahan Saka

• There are very wide difference of opinion about the origin of these two Samvatsar.
• Both these eras signify the decisive victories the Indians won over the Saka-Kushans.
• Samvat is more acceptable as from Vedic time we are using Samvatsar and Samvat for the measurement of time.
• The word 'Saka' appear to be corrupt form of  foreign aggressors Sakas and Kushans.
• Shalivahan(Salivahan) Saka is not a pure name of sanskrit extraction as Vikram Samvat.
• So instead of Salivahan Saka - "Salivahan Samvat" should be used.

Satavahan Empire

Indian's Martial and religious Victory over The Sakas

• Andhra warriors Salivahan Kings like Vilinayankur, Gautamiputra Satkarni, Vashishthputra Pulamayi and others destroyed Sakas kingdom in  Gujarath, Sourashtra and Sindh.
• Saka Satrap "Rudra" gave his daughter in marriage to Salivahan King as Greek King Seleucos had years before given his to Emperor Chandragupta.
• Due to this fight over hundred years, Indian civilization look over Sakas. They started to adopt Indian names. Most of them embraced Vedic religion.
• Buddhist were more in the region of Baluchistan and Sindh. They never opposed Sakas. Naturally Sakas must have hated Vedic people more. But still they accepted Vedic religion because of respect at the valiant Vedic warriors who defeated them.
• Sakas made sanskrit their offical language.

The Kushan Invasion

• By this time Kushan who were pushed by Huns started to enter India. Millions of them violently entered Southern Asia shedding blood, plundering and burning towns and cities.
• They pushed themselves ahead of Punjab. Their first king in India was Wima Kadphises.
• After death of Wima, Kanishka ascended the throne in 78 A.D.
• He took over all kingdom and merged into single one. His capital was Purushpur(Peshawar).
• Because of continuous battle with Sakas, Satavahanas got defeated in one or two battles and withdrawn from the north of the Narmada to the south to build strong defences.
• By this time Kanishka conquered all the Sakas states Malava, Gujarath, Sourashtra and Sindh.

Its not only the battlefield that decides whether a Nation is destroyed because of Foreign aggression rather in the final phase of that National Struggle that Nation was able to overcome those foreign aggressions that determines a Nation's prowess, its vitality and its right to live.

Kanishka Embraces Buddhism?

• Kanishka embraces buddhism but due to many sects those who joined him called Mahayan sect.
• Others who refrained to join Mahayan, founded Heenayan.
• Mahayan recognised Sanskrit as the language of their religion.
• Buddhist scriptures which were formally written in Pali and Prakrit only, were translated into Sanskrit.
• Inspite of Buddhism he continue attacking his enemies with huge armies.
• Passed 10 years in the effort to Conquer China and got killed by his tired soldiers only.
• He was able to spread Buddhism in China because he had first conquered those provinces with his weapons of war.

Without armed support, religious victory if tame and insipid, whereas martial glory without a strong religious footing becomes grossly diabolic. This alone is true. 

Disloyalty of Buddhists

• They again supported a foreigner Kanishka like they did to Greek, while Satvahans and Youdheyas continue to fight with Kanishka.
• Due to their treason Buddhism continue to decline.

Kanishka Grandson Havishka(Samrat Vasudeo)

• Havishka embraced Vedic religion and changed his name to Samrat Vasudeo and struck coins with the images of Siva and Nandi imprinted on them.
• After death of Kasnishka his empire fell to pieces.
• Satvahanas kept South intact throughout, North also declared independence.

Gupta Empire

Chandragupta(308 A.D. - 318 A.D.) -> Samudragupta ( 318 A.D - 375 A.D.) -> Chandragupta-2

• During the 125 years of Sakas-Kushan onslaught Patliputra or Magadha ruled by non-entity king with the four walls.
• Around 300 A.D., Lichchavi Republic was established known in Magadha from the times of Buddha.
• Princess of Lichchavi married to Chandragupta.
• He founded an independent kingdom in Patliputra.
• During his ten years of rule he extended Patliputra to include Magadha, Prayag and Ayodhya.
• Chandragupta died in 330 A.D.
• Gupta dynasty was a staunch adherent of the Vedic religion Shree Vishnu being their chief God of Worship.

Samudragupta

• He conquered several independent states in  North and South like Mauryan Empire. He took over Kamrup, Samatat, Nepal and all the region from north-eastern frontier provinces to the Vindhyas. 
• He conquered twelve prominent kingdom in South and allowed their Kings to go free and rule their kingdoms.
• After seeing this Kushan in Gandhar and others voluntarily sued for peace and accepted Gupta paramountcy.
• This end the Kushan problem.
• However Sakas kings from Malava to Sindh also conquered Andhra.
• He was preapring for march against Sakas but died in 375 A.D.
• His wish was that his younger but valiant and Virile son Chandragupta-2 should be crowned emperor.
• But elder son Ramgupta took over the empire.

Chandragupta-2 (Vikramaditya)

• When Ramgupta took over the empire, Sakas became fearless and asked Ramgupta to send his wife Grahdevi to them.
• To avoid conflict, Ramgupta started preparations to send his queen to Sakas.
• Chandragupta took Grahdevi under his protection and sends word to Saka King that queen will be sent with curtained palanquin together with her maids in similar litters.
• Chandragupta himself donned the female attire and sat in the queen's Palanquin with his strong choosen warriors in other Palanquins.
• Saka King was so happy that he came to welcome but immediately killed by Chandragupta.
• Chandragupta and his warriors vanished before the news spread.
• Whole capital and the Nation was filled with joy on this Chandragupta victory.
• There was great agitation to dethrone the coward Ramgupta.
•  In this commotion Ramgupta was killed.
• Chandragupta was crowned emperor and married to same Grahdevi whom he saved from humiliation at the hands of the enemy.
• He then marched upon the Saka Satraps.
• At all the places Saka kings were crushed. The last King Rudrasingh, son of Satyasingh was killed by Chandragupta.
• After ending Sakas, he entered the ancient city Ujjayini which was capital of Saka kingdom.
• He was assumed the title of Vikramaditya.
• He renamed Malava Samvat as Vikram Samvat.
• Ujjayini was made capital of the western part of his India-wide empire.

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2nd Glorious Epoch - Yavana - Destroyer, Pushyamitra

Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History: Chapter 2

Chandragupta( 327 - 298 B.C) -> Bindusar( 298 - 273B.C.) -> Ashoka(273 - 232 B.C) -> Brihadrath ( 232 - 184 B.C.) -> Pushyamitra(Shung Dynasty) -> Agnimitra ->Vasumitra

Mighty Bindusar

• Once started almost all Southern States accepted his rule.
• Either by peace talks, money, threats or even by sowing seeds of sedition.
• India was the mightiest in its military sense, of all the nations of the then know World.

Ashoka Enforces Buddhism

• Banned all vedic rituals, hunting, hunting even wild animals who use to kill humans.
• Chanakya foreseen this evil of Buddhist cult, laid restrictions like Minor girl can't enter Buddha Sangham without Parents permission, Several Men can't become Bhikshu until they make arrangements for their family.
• During Ashoka all restrictions removed.
• Thousands of Bhikksus were allowed free food, clothing, beddings and abodes as charities at the cost of state.
• Spent crores of rupees to build gigantic Vihar for them.
• Ahimsa was glorified and those who protect the Nation Kshatriya started to feel low.
• Those who converted to Buddist regarded very high in society.
• Ashoka started to appoint only Buddhist on high posts.

After Death of Ashoka

• As military strength of Maurya's went into complete disorder, Greeks started to attack again.
• Demetreos crossed Hindukush, reduced Kanboj, Gandhar and crossed Indus, conquering the whole of Panchnad.
• Proceed towards Magadha to conquer it.
• They conquered even Ayodhya(Saketa).
• This greek invasion took place within thiry to forty years of Ashoka's adoption of Buddhism.
• Once Mauryan Empire was having 6 Lakh foot soldier, 30,000 cavalry, 2000 war elephants and 4000 chariots.
• Was these Greeks under Demetreos in any way superior to Alexander and Seleucos?
• So, why these inferior were able to defeat Indians so easily when even Alexander was not.
• During Alexander time - Youdheyas were proud of their was like spirit, were also known as Nation-in-Arms. In some states all the citizens use to join battle to protect the Nation.
• According to Chanakya all the Varnas including the Brahmins had free access to the military service. This was the tradition of Vedic Poeple.
• The war against unjustifiable aggression, protecting the virtuos people was never considered "violent" by the Vedic religion. Its called religious war.

The Saviour - Kharvela

• Buddhist never enraged or disturbed by Greek aggression.
• Vedic hindus were highly enraged at this National insult.
• Within a decade of Ashoka's death, Kalinga and Andhra established Independent Kingdom.
• When Magadha failed to protect India, at last King of Kalinga Kharvela marched against Greeks.
• Defeated Magadha and then crushed Demetrous near Ayodhya. He pushed Yavana beyond Panchnad(Punjab).
• Due to political emergency, Kharvela came back. Didn't dethrone Bridhdrath. Celebrated according to Vedic tradition, horse ceremony.
• This was the symbolic of establishment of Vedic state.
• As Kharvela returned, Menander stabilized his position in Kamboj and Gandhar. Invaded India within 4 years. Magadha didn't offered any resistance. He took over Panchnad easily.
• Many buddhist supported Menander as he told that he embrace Buddhism. So, buddist preachers began to publicise that Greeks came to fight Vedic Hindu alone.
• Menander came till Ayodhya and consolidated his power before attacking Magadha.

Pushyamitra - Persecutor of Anti-National Forces

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• Vedic people were full of heroic spirit because of victory of Kharvela and began to plan how to establish Vedic rule on Magadha by removing weak King Brihadrath.
• Pushyamitra from Shung family attained fame due to his military exploits that even knowing that he is a staunch supporter of Vedic religion, Brihadrath appoint him Commander-in-Chief.
• He began to enlarge and reorganize the army of Magadha.
• During a grand military parade in Pataliputra, Pushyamitra behead Brihadrath and ends the Mauryan dynasty(around 184 B.C.).
• After stabilizing the administration and consolidation of his powers he marched against Menander in Ayodhya.
• He inflicted heavy damage on Greek forces and pushed them beyond Indus.
• This was the last Greek aggression.
• He apppointed Agnimitra his son as Viceroy of Ujjain Region.

Agnimitra

• He forced merged land till Vidarbha in south into the empire.
• Princess of Vidarbha wanted to marry Agnimitra so King of Vidarbha married her with Agnimitra.
• On this romantic theme Kalidas composed his famous play Malavikagnimitra.

Restoration of Vedic Legacy

• Vincent Smith Writes in his Early History of India (1924), The Yavanas and all other rivals having been disposed of in due course, Pushyamitra was justified in his claim to reign as the paramount power of North India.
• He performs horse-sacrifice, which thrilled the whole country.
• This was symbolic in the sense that all Vedic Hindus can enjoy freedom which was totally suppressed by Ashoka.

Vasumitra

• General Vasumitra who was the grandson of Pushyamitra was given the task of protecting the horse.
• Some Yavana king opposed him at the bank of Indus river. He defeated all of them and got released the the ceremonial horse.
• When Vasumitra returned and entered the capital, Pushyamitra writes a formal invitation to his son Agnimitra.
• Kalidas has practically reproduced this in his play Malavikagnimitra.

A National Festival

• The festive occasion of the horse-ceremony was attended by great sages, Brahmins versed in all the Vedic verse, high born Kshatriya Kings, officers, administrators, etc. Patanjali who was among the greatest scholars was also present along with western scholars.
• At the beginning of the first century of Christian era, Sakas started attacking Bactria, Persia and Gandhar.
• Greeks crossed Indus with their family to seek shelter in India.
• Inspite of their bloody history in India, they were given shelter forgetting all anmity.
• What a great country India, who gives shelter to even enemy if they seek refuge.
• They adopted to Indian Language, customs and merged into the society.
• This shows that when the foreign aggressors where totally defeated, vanquished then only they accepted our culture and got dissolved in out society.
• This was achieved not by peaceful persuasion but by stronger and deadlier weapons.

Anti-National met their fate

• All Buddhists who helped greeks in invasion against the country were given death punishment.
• The allegation of religious persecution is wrong.
• Megasthenes a greek ambassador also wrote about this. He didn't even mentioned Buddhist name here.
• All religion together with Buddhist continue to enjoy freedom and persue their religion as per great Indian tradition.

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3. https://www.quora.com/Why-is-king-Kharavela-been-so-underrated-in-Indian-history
4. https://www.quora.com/Was-Kharavela-a-greater-emperor-than-Ashoka

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