05-14-2006, 06:57 PM
Thanks Shri Hauma for the answers. I'm trying to seek answer to another belief about the revered naga sect of shaiva sadhus. It is generally regarded that they were unlike other ahimsha sadhus extremely millitant and fought toe-to-toe battle with moslems....Is this true? Internet search doesn't reveal anything particularly scholastic about the history of nagas and their role as protector of the sanatana dharma. Survival of hinduism through 600 years of moslem rule is a fascinating subject and I keep trying to understand what saved us, when everywhere else moslesm were completely triumphant (except over christianit, but we know why). We have lost much much more in 60 years of secularism (when looked at the rate) than a mellinium of moslem aggretion~and even then I think it were the buddhist who gave up first to create a demographic effect. So I'm always who were those who saved us from extinction apart from the great effort of a few khastriya clans from time to time.
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