বঙ্কিম-কণিকা ‘subject to the pressure of the power of arms the children of Manu in this holy land of the field of Bharata, the people who speak the Divine Prakrita and Sanskrita languages, and lead lives according to their castes. This business has been going on from long, long, long before your blood-thirsty Saxon race colonised England. The same story runs through the Vedas, Purans, Itihasas, the Mutakkherrins of the Mussalmans, your histories, through all. The JDasyws, Daityas, or Damavas ;-Bakshasas, Pisachas, or Na jas :-Hun, Yavana, or Mlechchha-raise obstacles to the performance of religious ceremonies, destroy the platforms erected for the Gods, deprive Indra of his rule of heaven, make a slave of his Sachi, ravish chaste women, imprison royal Saints in dark cells, make heaps of the “Sacred thread” upavitas of the Brahmans, and set fire to them, commit outrages after sudden descents ; but for all that, the Sanatana religion never suffers harm. The Sanatana (eternal) religion is pure gold ; be it Auranzebe or Kala Pahar, Lansdowne (or) Scoble—whoever may set fire to it, only the dross will be burnt ; the gold will come out all the brighter. ఫిసి
