Lord Budha, ‘Light of Asia’ and most divine a figure, was never the one to be confined to a caste as the world as a whole was his domain and he was humanity incarnate. Born around 6th century B.C., Gautam Budha was a Kshatriya, more popularly known as Rajputs and being son of king Siddodhan, his upbringing took place in Shakyan traditions as his father was of a Shakya sect amongst Kshatriyas ruling Kapilvastu. Gautam Budha himself is referred to as Shakyamuni. Later when Budhism was pioneered by Gautam Budha as a Sangh abandoning princely status and becoming himself a bhikshu moving from place to place seeking alms, his father Siddodhan had an objection contending that he should refrain from doing so as a Kshatriya can’t be supposed to live on alms. Gautam Budha’s reply to this was that as a Budhist he was neither a Kshatriya nor any other caste whatsoever, he belonged to a world where there were no caste barriers of any kind. Great Budha was not for any discrimination between a person and a person. Now that it is a total scenario of political domination on all counts, there are people to describe Gautam Budha as a non Kshatriya and that he belonged to a scheduled caste. No harm in belonging to a scheduled caste but there is no reason to far fetchedly over twisting the historical facts. One is supposed to be honest to history and no political mileage should be allowed to overtake the factual reality. The  mission one leads is much more important than the caste which one belongs to. Those who aspire to honestly persue Budhism are the ones who practice equality based on a cause and not the caste. They are not to indulge in erasing history.

Needless to reiterate that I am extremely thankful to large number of readers who go through my posts on and emerging from ‘Prithviraj Chauhan -an answer to Yashika Singh’s question’ giving their comments, most of them so elaborately running into several pages. These comments have enabled me to realise how the great hero of Indian History, Prithviraj Chauhan is still loved by the people. He was certainly a legend and continues to be so even now with strong potentials of being taken as such by the future generations till eternity. But there is no dearth of those too who take liberty to ridicule him and his love Sanyokta in whatever can be the worst possible manner. After all all are free to express themselves. There are comments supporting Prithviraj Chauhan as a kafir (a slang describing a person as anti religion) contributing lot many factors by way of comments coming out with parallel versions like Prithviraj Chauhan was a coward, that he was badly defeated by Mohd Ghori, that his beloved wife Sanyokta was raped infront of Prithviraj Chauhan himself and that Ghori took her away to Ghazni himself getting married to her. Such versions lack authetication and may be they are nothing more than concoctions. These are the expressions which certainly require more of research in the matter to ascertain as to what extent the author(s) of such comments could be justified in their narrations. I am to take up the issue more elaborately in a separate post on this very site.

A very large number of readers sumptuously covered the topic much more at length giving reasoning and facts against adverse comments on Prithviraj Chauhan/ Sanyokta. It was an indepth coverage but there are certain comments which are full of slangs and abuses of a worst order against those talking ill of the hero. Expression with anguish is OK, nothing wrong in opposing some one’s remarks but I humbly make an appeal to my conscious readers to take due care of the language. Any amount of thoughts can after all be abundantly exchanged without being aggressively offensive.

As I wrote in my post ‘Prithviraj Chauhan -His last days (2), I have been going through lot many versions of narrations on the great hero by different other authors/historians to meet numerous queries raised by my otherwise quite inquisitive readers on the subject quite frequently. Although it is not quite possible to meet all the queries on individual footing, I do feel it is incumbent on my part to cover salient areas on the last days of the great warrior in a summed up form. I am thankful to many of my readers who gave me much of feed back to me by way of their comments. When badly defeated in the first battle of Tarain by Prithviraj Chauhan, Mohd Ghori begged for mercy and most kind hearted as Prithviraj Chauhan was he just spared him not realising that the invader was of a mean type and could behave in most treacherous a manner later on when getting an opportunity. He connived, saw to it that there was again a battle at Tarain. There again the Indian King emerged thumpingly victorious but before he could settle down with the victory he was conceitfully overpowered by the herd of enemy army, captured and dragged to invaders camp from where he was hurriedly taken to Ghazni. The story that followed is awefully humiliating with a volley of tortures on the Indian hero. He was blinded and so was done to his all time companion Chand Bardai, his court poet. As planned and worked out with dexterity by Chand Bardai, Prithviraj had a chance to exhibit his chivalry in bow and arrow skill which chance he took to brutally attack Ghori. There are two versions on this -one that his arrow could pierce the heart of Ghori killing him on the spot and the other that he was severely attacked but escaped. An eye witness account narrated by S.C.Sharma is there in his article in the Indian Express nearly a decade back as to how his grave in Ghazni is deliberately looked upon with disgrace and indignity by the locals in particular with a managed message from the referees for the purpose that it is here where the infidel king of Delhi lies burried. Nothing but highly unfortunate it is that the Indian King who fought and had to die for the country was denied his burial in his own country nor even his Indian counterparts or later the very Government of India took any pains to bring back his remains to India.

Many a queries are there on my earlier article ‘Prithviraj Chauhan -his last days’. Infact this very article was written by me to meet queries of this sort only by my readers. Now that I have been able to collect some more astonishing material on this through some new additions to my library, feedback by my readers and certain features on the subject appearing in media channels, I am working on completing a new writeup titled as ‘Prithviraj Chauhan -his last days (3) which hopefully should meet different questions on the topic raised by large number of my readers. The article is tobe published shortly.

It is the different individual faculties of a person which control and command his/her activities. Such activities are further based on factors, besides patience and faith, like the company of friends one has and also the life partner. The great poet Tulsidas has elaborately highlighted these areas in his Ram Charitra Manas emphasizing that in the event of some crisis or the other a man has to test his own amount of patience, he has to trace the remedy to the problem in his religious faith, he has to see whether his friends are really faithful to him and that he has to try his trust in his wife. He said it in a particular context of the story but the narration holds good for every body. All may look good, friends or relatives, but the factor as to how serious they are in conducting friendship as a true relationship can be tried only in times of crisis. Reference of wife covers a woman associate and there again the real test takes place only when there is some grave problem confronting an individual. One’s own faculties like patience and faith intact, a person is lucky if he/she has a company of trusted friends.

I rely upon and relish interacting with my laptop, it is joyful. Problem ofcourse starts when it starts behaving erratic pointing out errors after errors and working on their solutions gets worse confounded as it hardly leads to any conclusion. I get confused. From compatibility angle I have to use some different internet browser which helps on many counts but results into several new difficulties. These difficulties mainly emerge for the reason that one browser doesn’t tolerate the other. Who is to blame ? Is it that after working on computers for more than three decades I am still an amateur. Search engines, help, support, customer service all fail to deliver me any results. My problem is that my laptop is directly linked to my health and I lose my form feeling uneasy the moment my computer goes out of order or starts behaving irritatingly. Possibly the universal truth that something that interests you so much has a full length potential to equally behave otherwise.