6_Glorious_Epochs_of_Indian_History

6TH GLORIOUS EPOCH 231
war cries of 'Har Har Mahadev' of these Hindu warriors,
following closely the glad news of victory and the downfall
of the Muslim state of Mysore, must have informed them of
the triumphal march of the Maratha conquering armies
through their own towns, villages and cities. How eagerly
these unfortunate Hindu converts—and especially the women
—must have hastened to crowd the windows, doors, fissures
and small openings of those Muslim prison-like houses and
cottages to have at least a fleeting glimpse of those martial
processions ! And how keenly must their sorely afflicted
hearts have felt the happy yet acutely painful pangs of
intense expectation of imminent deliverance from those
Satanic Muslim dungeons and confines ! "At last—at long
last—they have come !" they might have said to themselves,
"Our/my-Hindu brothers have come trampling down the
wicked hearts of the Muslim tyrants to deliver us from their
abject servitude !" On occasions some of them might have
very probably seen their own fathers or brothers or husbands
or relatives or at least some neighbours proudly strutting
through the streets in their triumphal marches !
THE LACK OF WILL
579. On such occasions if only these proudly marching
military detachments of Hindu warriors had simply willed
it, they could have, in no time, set free those thousands of
miserable Hindu men and women rotting in Muslim bondages
They could have simply gone on doing it just as they passed
along the streets ! So simple the whole thing really was.
But...!
580. For, at that time the Muslims, neither individually
nor collectively had any courage or strength left in them to
oppose the triumphant Hindu army. At the approach of the
Maratha soldiery, the Mulla-Moulavis and the rogues, knaves
and brigands were at great pains to hide their faces into
whichever nook or ditch they could find in order to save
their lives.
580-A. If only one gay blast from the Maratha bugle