Brave daughters of Raja Dahir - Suraj Devi and Parimal Devi

Brave daughters of Raja Dahir - Suraj Devi and Parimal Devi

[Instead of teaching false history we must teach the original history and the bravery of INDIAN WOMAN. This is the story of the daughters who very cleverly killed the first barbarous and brutal Muslim looter. Who destroyed the great kingdom of Indian king DAHIR.]

Tuhman Hamadani, accompanied by Abyssinian servants. One night the Khalif had the two girls brought into his haram, and he then gave them into the charge of the bedchamber attendants, with orders to pay them every attention, and present them when they had recovered from the fatigues of their journey. Two months afterwards the Khalif remembered these two Hindi slaves, and ordered them to be brought into his presence. An interpreter accordingly summoned them. When their veils were thrown back, the Khalif, on seeing them, became distracted with admiration of their great beauty. He then asked them their names; one said her name was Parmal-Devi, the other said her name was Suraj-Devi. The Khalif ordered the attendants to leave one of them there. She then rose and said: 'I am not fit for the bedchamber of the Khalif, because Muhammad bin Kasim dishonored us both before be sent us to the Khalif.' When the interpreter explained this, the fire of anger and jealousy was kindled in the Khalif, and he gave orders that as a punishment for this want of respect, Muhammad bin Kasim should be wrapped up in the raw hide of an ox, and be sent to the capital. To enforce this order, the Khalif wrote some words of menace in the margin of the letter in his own hand, 'Wherever Muhammad bin Kasim may be, when this reaches him, he is to come to the capital, and make no fail in obeying this order.' Muhammad bin Kasim was at Udhapur, when the Khalif's chamberlain brought this mandate. When he had read it he directed that officer to carry the order into effect. He accordingly wrapped Muhammad bin Kasim in a raw hide. Three days afterwards the bird of life left his body and flew to heaven. The chamberlain put the body into a box, and carried it to the capital. When he arrived in Syria, he brought the box before the Khalif on a day of public audience. The Khalif enquired if Muhammad were alive? The chamberlain replied that he had been enclosed in a raw skin, and that he died three days afterwards. The Khalif then directed the box to be taken into the female apartments, and ordered that it should be opened there in his presence. He then called for the daughters of Raja Dahir, and said, 'Come and see how supreme are my commands; behold, Muhammad bin Kasim!' They both came forward to look at him and recognized him, and, raising their hands, they blessed and praised the Khalif. They then said, Kings of great justice should not proceed hastily in perilous matters, nor act precipitately upon the information of friends or enemies in the most important of all concerns.' When the Khalif enquired what was the meaning of their address, they replied: 'We raised this charge against Muhammad bin Kasim out of enmity to him, because he slew our father, and through him dominion and wealth have departed from our house, we have come as prisoners into a foreign land; the king in his anger did not weigh our words, nor distinguish between our truth and our falsehood, but issued his fatal order. The truth is, this man was to us as a father, or a brother; his hands never touched the skirts of our purity; our object was to revenge our father, and so we made this accusation. Our wishes have been fulfilled, but there has been a serious failure in the king's justice.' When the Khalif heard this, he was overwhelmed with remorse for a whole hour; but the fire of anger then burst from the furnace of his bossom, and he gave orders for the two girls to be tied to the tails of horses, and, after being dragged round the city, to be thrown into the Tigris (Dajla). Muhammad bin Kasim was buried at Damascus. Two years after his death the people of India rebelled, and threw off their yoke, and only from Debalpur to the Salt Sea remained under the dominions of the Khalif."

[Reference- The History Of India As Told By Its Own Historians by SIR H.M. ELLIOT, K.C.B. ; Vol. I ; 1867 ; Presented by Priyanshu Seth]