6_Glorious_Epochs_of_Indian_History

6TH GLORIOUS EPOCH 243
[The pirates (meaning the Portuguese), Hyder, the Nizam,
the English all were exhausted fighting (with the Marathas)
Whoever looked (with enmity) at Poona, lost their wealth !]
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609. Suppose, as soon as this propitious time had comej
the Maratha Chieftains like Bhonsale, Holkar, Patwardhan,
Baste and others, who had fought against Tipu, the Maratha
administrators, the Peshwa and the Chhatrapati, had
promulgated, in consultation with the prominent religious
authorities, some such order (if not actually couched in the
same words) as the following :
610. "Just as the valour of the Maratha warriors had
trampled under their feet the Muslim rule of Tipu, in a
•similar way, in order to bring to the lowest dust the Muslim
religious preponderance under the fiendish Tipu, which has
•so far inflicted every sort of brutality and humiliation on the
Hindus and to chastise those guilty of these heinous crimes,
our government has decided to attack in return the Muslims
on the religious field.
611. "Faithfully following the interpretation of the
religious law and the religious code of conduct by Shree
Shankaracharya Vidyaranyaswami, whose authority is consi­
dered next only to the Very First Shree Shankaracharya by
the whole of the Hindu world, we hereby for the first time,
propose to break the psychological ban on reconversion which
has simply paralysed the Hindu society, so far as the retalia­
tion of the tyrannical Muslim religion is concerned, and we
hereby order every single official, of whatever rank, to make
the necessary arrangements to enforce the strict observance
•of the following instructions.
612. "On learning about the forcible conversion of
Hindu men and women in his particular jurisdiction, every
village and city-officer shall gather together all such oppres-
•sed Hindus in some rescue camp under the government
protection, and shall attend to all their needs.
613. "Every several Muslim man and woman in every