6_Glorious_Epochs_of_Indian_History

206 SIX GLORIOUS EPOCHS OF INDIAN HISTORY
the ruthless atrocities of the Muslims. The rest of the Indian
continent was wholly free from the danger of Muslim domina­
tion. The Muslims had not yet made any further headway.
^Naturally the ban on purification and reconversion had not
so far^presented itself to them in any urgency. It should be
told here that the ban on the crossing of the Attock, i.e. the
injunction appearing in the later smritis, declaring it a sin
to cross the Indus and to go over into the Muslim lands,
must have been promulgated by our traditionalist priesthood
with the sole intention of saving Hinduism. For, it was
impossible that crossing the Indus meant abandoning
Hinduism (the Vedic cult) and being polluted, as it is now
amply proved that even after the ravages of Mahmud of
Ghazni, the whole of the region beyond the Indus even up to
the Mount Pariyatra (Hindukush mountains) was reconquered
by the Hindus and the Hindu rule spread up to Khotan.
Even up to that time 'Krunvanto Vishwam Aryam' was the
motto inscribed on our national flag. 'Traverse the whole
world for spreading Aryadharma' was the supreme unqualified
religious order of the day !
523-4. But it becomes clear from the historical facts
mentioned above that it is only when the Hindu states
beyond the Indus were liquidated, thousands of Hindus began
to be violently converted to Islam by the devilish Muslims,
who subjected the followers of other religions to harrowing
persecution. The ban on crossing the Attock must, therefore,
have been enforced owing to the helplessness caused by the
lack of any armed support for the Hindus in those regions.
Another proof of this is the provision in the (Smrityaite)
smarta order (order-system-laid down by the smritis) for
adding or deleting according to the times and circumstances
the religious duties beneficial or harmful to the nation. The
verse :
'Different were the religious rites
and duties of the krit, Dwapar and
other epochs (ages) (But) owing to
the deterioration of the ages the