Emperor Mahir Bhoja Pratihara
Gujjar Pratihar Raghuvansh, a caste of heroes and warriors, is a descendant of Lakshman, the brother of Shiromani Shri Ram. There was one Mahabhat warrior and mighty ruler in this dynasty, which is less talked about and praised. Emperor Mihir Bhoj was born in this glorious dynasty. He ruled from 836 AD to 885 AD, sometimes from Kannauj and sometimes from Ujjain. Even though leftist historians have conspired to cut off the history of Mihir Bhoj, has Mihir Bhoj made all those great Indian emperors and warriors disappeared from Indian history who dusted off the Arab, Turkish Muslim invaders and took them to Arabia or Bharatvarsha? But the Prabhas Khand of Skanda Purana describes in detail about the valor, valor and might of Emperor Mihir Bhoj.
Mihir Bhoj was considered Veer Bahadur since childhood. He was born on Vikram Samvat 873. Emperor Mihir Bhoj's wife's name was Chandrabhattarika Devi who belonged to Bhati Rajput dynasty. The stories of Mihir Bhoj's valor became famous all over the world. Kalhana, the state poet of Kashmir, has mentioned Emperor Mihir Bhoj in his book Raj Tarangini.
Fully dedicated to the defense of nation and religion
From the beginning to the end, his life was very struggling. He spent his life in the battle on the back of a horse. Arabic, Turkish Muslims have called him their biggest enemy in their history. It is said about Mihir Bhoj that he limited the Muslims to only 5 caves (areas). This was the same time, when the Muslims only won a war in a war and made the subjects Muslims there, but in the name of this brave Kshatriya Emperor Mihir Bhoj of India, the hearts of the Arab, Turkish invaders were shaken.>
He formed a central cavalry army of about nine lakhs. By suppressing the feudatories, reminded them of their basic duty and by implementing the aggressive policy of their ancestors Nagabhatta I and II more fiercely, they attacked Sindh and horrified the Muslim invaders. But the threat of genocide of the local Hindu population and the emotional fraud of the murder of the Multan temple and priests gave life to the Arabs on the condition of paying taxes.
He established such an organized administration according to Hindu standards that theft, dacoity and crime did not take place under his rule. The affluence was so much that even common citizens used silver and gold currencies for daily living expenses.
Great administrator and diplomat
The Arab traveler Suleiman has written in his book Silsila-ut-Tarika that Emperor Mihir Bhoj has a large and best army of camels, horses and elephants. Trade in his kingdom is done with gold and silver coins. There was no fear of thieves and bandits in his kingdom.
The boundaries of Mihir Bhoj's kingdom extended from Kashmir in the north to the border of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh in the south, Assam in the east, north Bengal to Kabul in the west. The historian of Baghdad, Al-Masudi, who visited India in 915 AD, also wrote in his book Mirajul-Jahab that Emperor Mihir Bhoj had a super-powerful, mighty army. The number of this army is stated in lakhs in all four directions.
According to historical evidence, an army of Mihir Bhoj under the leadership of Kanakpal Parmar protected Raghavdev of Garhwal Nepal from the invasions of Tibet. Similarly, an army under the leadership of Alkan Dev was stationed near Gurjaraj city of Punjab, which protected the Laliyashahi kings of Kabul from attacks from Turkistan. Its western army used to control the Muslim ruler of Multan. But the real work of Mihir Bhoj still remained which Muslim and Left historians have been hiding.
Revitalization of Hindu forcibly converted
Mihir Bhoj's attention went to the problem whose solution to his thinking was 1000 years ahead of his time. This problem was the large number of Hindus who were forcibly converted as a result of the Arab campaign in India. Despised by their own brothers, these neo-Muslims were becoming foreign Arabs in their own country and were compelled to support the Muslim invaders in the Arab-Turkish invasion. Mihir Bhoj, who is fully aware of this tendency of spreading Islam, found a hard permanent solution to it, in front of his perseverance, the bigotry of Brahmins could not raise its voice this time as it had happened earlier. He gave the option of forcibly converted Hindus to return to Hinduism again.
Most of the converted Hindus voluntarily reverted to Hinduism by atonement by "Chandrayana Vrat", even the raped and kidnapped women were declared completely holy by Chandrayan Vrat and their honor was returned. Due to this successful effort, India remained free from Islamic aggression "outside and inside" for the next 150 years. Unfortunately, the later Hindu kings did not follow this efficient policy, due to which the Islamization of India went on.
Exclusive devotee of Lord Vishnu and Mahadev
Emperor Mihir Bhoj was a great devotee of Lord Vishnu and Mahadev. He assumed the title of Adi Varaha. He was also an exclusive devotee of Lord Mahakal established in Ujjain. His army used to eliminate the enemy in the battlefield with the challenge of Jai Mahadev, Jai Vishnu, Jai Mahakal. He had constructed many buildings and temples. There were 7 forts and ten thousand temples in the capital Kannauj. Temples built by him are present even today like Chaturbhuj temple of Orchha, Teli ka temple of Gwalior, Trineteshwar temple of Gujarat, Bateshwar temple of Chambal etc.
At the time of Mihir Bhoj, the Arab invaders made many unsuccessful attempts to increase their power in India. But he failed. Emperor Mihir Bhoj, the protector of courage, valor, valor and culture, had taken retirement in the last years of his life by handing over the throne to his son Mahendrapal. Mihir Bhoj died on 888 AD at the age of 72. In the history of India, the name of Mihir Bhoj is recorded as Sanatan Dharma and protector of the nation.
Key Source:
- category era-r . C. Majumdar
- Political and Cultural History of Ancient India - Dr. Vimalchandra Pandey
- Original History of Pratiharas Author- Devi Singh Mandawa
- History of Pratihar dynasty of Vindhya region Writer- Dr. Anupam Singh
- Gwalior Records etc