Bharadwaj

The same poem talks about Hindu temple destruction, mass slaughter, depopulation and destruction of Hindu settlements, abduction, ethnic cleansing of Brahmins, slavery, rαpe of Hindu women. Go figurehttps://twitter.com/suchitrav/status/1370735174137298946 …

Within one year of Yogi's coming to Power, Allahabad was Changed to Prayagaraj. Ahmedabad is still Ahmedabad even after 23 years of continuous BJP rule in Gujarat. Why?

Finally, Sambhaji Maharaj was beheaded at Tulapur. His severed head was paraded and put on public display in an ISIS like fashion.

Sambhaji Maharaj was dressed as buffoon and paraded. His wife and daughters were captured and enslaved. Aurangzeb offered to spare Sambhaji’s life if 1)He converted to Islam 2)surrendered forts, men and treasures 3)Divulged information of those who secretly sided with him (10/n)

Ultimately, he was betrayed by his own people & his whereabouts told to Mughals In 1689, Mughal troops suddenly fell upon a resting Sambhaji. This came as a shock to him and he was completely ambushed at Sangameshwar along with 25 of his advisors.

Just then,Mughals came in support of Portuguese & attacked Sambhaji from East. Heavily outnumbered and encircled, Sambhaji still managed to hold onto his territories & invaded/successfully raided Mughal-held Gujarat in 1685. Even the Mughal base at Aurangabad was not safe(6/n)

In 1682, Mughal army at Ramsej(Nasik) was defeated, repulsed by Marathas. This defeat dealt a blow to the Aurangzeb's prestige. In 1683,Sambhaji attacked Portuguese Goa & successfully captured Ponda fort. He was on his way to annihilate Portuguese traces in India for good (5/n)

Sambhaji was encircled & death of newly formed kingdom of Shivaji, hope of millions of Hindus, seemed imminent. But Sambhaji decided to fight fire with fire.His small bands dispersed & battled Mughals in all directions. In first year,he invited Subedar Bahadur Khan for war(4/n)

But Aurangzeb had little idea he'd spend next 27 years of life in Decca, ultimately failing his objective and meeting a sad death. Aurangzeb also enlisted the services of Sidis and Portuguese who attacked Marathas from West while Mughals attacked them from North and East. (3/n)

By 1681,Aurangzeb reached Burhanpur. He intended to uproot Maratha race, destroy temples, crush Hindu resistance for good &go back to Delhi as victor within 1 year. The most powerful and richest person in the world came with 5 Lakh Mughal troops, largest army in the world (2/n)

Although some linguists give a simple etymological derivation of Herath from *hara+ratri, the above anecdote is its traditional exegesis as preserved in the Kashmiri Hindu tradition

Incidentally, Jabbar was the last Afghan governor of Kashmir. Within 8 years of this incident, a general of Maharaja Ranjit Singh named Misr Diwan Chand (who himself was an ardent Shiva devotee) invaded Kashmir & Afghan rule came to an end. Afghans were expelled from Kashmir.

That year, it miraculously snowed in Ashadha and Shivaratri was celebrated. Everybody was shocked (Hairat=shock in Persian) and festival was celebrated. Kashmiris have a saying "Wuchton yih Jabbar, jandah, Haras tih karun wandah"- look at Jabbar wretch, he turned Hara into snow"