6_Glorious_Epochs_of_Indian_History

STH GLORIOUS EPOCH
places of others with deadly weapons of war, slew the
innocent men and women, young and old, forced them to
embrace Islam at the point of the sword, and ran frantically
•causing death and destruction everywhere. But such a state­
ment born of boldnes cannot be expected of these immature
•childish and cowardly writers ! If the Muslim writers of
'Tarikhs'28 and the Mulla Moulavees boast that the Hindu
•Gods were not the true Gods because they did not prevent
the Muslim war-lords from breaking idols and demolishing
temples, and that theirs was the only true religion, they
should be enlightened that the arch heretic Changizkhan and
Iiis deputies not only desecrated the very city of the Muslim-
Ji^halipha, but ravaged it, killed the Khalipha, burned several
Masjids where Muslim Gods were said to reside, turned others
into stables for their horses, reduced the Bible to ashes, and
trampled the Koran under their horses' hoofs*'! The Muslim
Allah could not stop the ravaging hands of Changizkhan !
Hundreds of such instances can be cited*'. Are the Muslims
:ready to grant, on this account, the imbelicity and falsehood
•of their Allah ? Even when Shivaji slew the 'Butshikan'—
idol-breaker—Afzalkhan and offered his 'goat-like head with
thirty-two teeth', as a sacrificial offering to the Goddess
Bhavani of Tulzapur'^, his hands were not staved off from
doing so by the Muslim Allah !
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377. After demolishing the temple of Somnath and
loading the camels with the immense wealth, looted from it,
when Mahmud set out for Ghazni, he learnt that, instead
•of being cowed down into submission because of his whole­
sale destruction of the temple at Somnath, the Hindu popu­
lation was even more enraged, and that the King of Malava
with his large army was preparing to block his way back to
Ghazni and had already entered the battlefield. As Mahmud
was not prepared to risk this new battle, he took an unexpec­
ted and difficult route through the sandy deserts of Sindh
abandoning the usual way through Malava**. While crossing
the deserts of Sindh and Baluchistan, his army had to face
many dangers and unspeakable misery**. Hardly within