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12 Dayanada
and
Arya Samaj
of itself as presented by its Asiatic adversaries.
Dayananda had no greater regard for the
Qoran and the Puranas, trampled underfoot the
body of Brahmin orthodoxy. He had no pity for any
of his fellow countrymen, past or present, who had
contributed in any way the thousands-year
decadence of India, at one time the mistress of the
world.' He was a ruthless critic of all who, according
to him, had falsified or profaned the true Vedic
His panorama of Indian History is an interesting
one, a kind of impassioned Discourse on Universal
History to allude to a celebrated work of Bossuet of
the seventeenth century. It traces the origin of
humanity and the domination of India over the entire
globe (Including America and the Oceanic Islands;)
for according to him, the Nagas (serpents) and the
infernal spirits of the legends are the people of the
Antipondes; just so the struggles with the Asuras and
Rakshasas mean the wars with the Assyrians and the
Negroids). Dayananda replaces the whole of
mytholgy upon the earth. He dates all the misfortunes
of India and the ruin of the Great spirit of the Vedas
to the wars of ten times a Hundred Years sung by the
Mahabharat, wherein heroic India destroyed herself.
He is filled with hatered not only against the materialism
which resulted but also against Jainism, the suborner.
For him Sankara was the glorious though unfortunate
hero of the first war of Hindu independence in the