6_Glorious_Epochs_of_Indian_History

STH GLORIOUS EPOCH 451
the Hindus themselves broken by the Hindu arms ! Why,
the Maratha warriors pursued the Muslims even beyond
Attock upto Kandahar !
1085. It is already explained in paragraphs 522 to 535
how this town was named 'Attock' and why.
1086. When the news arrived in Maharashtra of the
•conquest of Attock and of the hoisting by the Marathas of
the Hindu Jaripatka on that fort the universal joy felt there
knew no bounds. The Marathas had taken revenge of the
wrongs done to the Hindus over a thousand years by routing
and driving the Muslims right upto Kabul and Kandahar
and wrenching the de facto sovereignty of the whole of India
from the Muslim hands.
AND THIS ITSELF IS THE FIFTH GLORIOUS EPOCH
OF HINDU VICTORIES OVER THE AGGRESSORS
1087. The page in the history of the Hindu nation which
records this unique event of the conquest of Attock and the
final victory of the Hindus in the epic millennial Hindu-
Muslim war and the establishment of the defacto sovereignty
of the Hindus over the so-called Muslim empire is really the
Golden Page in Hindu history and that day is truly the Red
Letter Day in the life of Hindu nation !
HOWEVER
1088. Just as a man on his death-bed, too, breathes a
little longer and sometimes even makes a violent effort to
rise in epileptic fits, but dies at last; or just as the whole
body of the enormously long snake, twenty feet or more in
length, gigantic in thickness vying with the broad trunks of
the Vat (Indian fig-Ficus Indica) tree, moving dangerously at
large in the forests, does not lie lifeless all at once in a
moment, even if its head has been smashed completely, but
keeps on moving convulsively and even at times seeks to
leap ahead, yet ultimately the dying body does die at last;
similarly in spite of the fact that the Marathas had smashed
the head of the Muslim imperial power and left it gasping