Was thinking/trying to write something about the most unsung yet one of the greatest(probably the greatest too..) empires of bhAratavarSha. But to write even volumes of literature,history & praise is like trying to show candlelight to the Sun ie the Great gurjara-pratihAra गुर्जर प्रतिहार (#GurjarPratihar) dynasty.
pratihAra literally means doorkeeper. And the most humble pratihAra were proud to use the epithet as for four centuries they kept the doors of bhAratavarSha guarded & defended against the Arabian Islamic(& later on Turkic) invaders. Whence, the Arab Islamic armies trounced upon & made vanish the eastern Roman & Persian empires in under four decades. If we look at the western extent of the pratihAra empire it roughly corresponds to the borders with Pakistan even today.
These glorious four hundred years have been blanked out of our history as if nothing happened. Nothing? When Islam conquered world from Atlantic coast to Persian coast & Central Asia to Caucasus to Central Africa in less than a century..but could not proceed beyond capturing sindhudesha for 400 years in our divine land defended by the very great & mighty pratihAra who worshipped AdivArAha as their deity. And true to their deity,the boar-incarnate viShNu, they saved mother earth from the mortal clutches of demons;but not once,many times over.
Greatest amongst the pratihAra emperors were nAgabhaTTa #Nagabhatta-I, #Nagabhatt-II and #Mihirbhoja.
We owe our existence,almost solely to the greatest amongst greats the gurjarapratihAra.
Our sAShTAnga praNAma to the biggest & greatest defenders of dharma & rAShTra. The only way we can thank them and express our gratitude is by reestablishing a resurgent #Astika #dhArmika #rAShTra on our puNyabhUmi AryAvarta bhAratavarSha.
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