"यशवंतराव होळकर" च्या विविध आवृत्यांमधील फरक

" The life of Yashwant Rao Holkar was one of unceasing struggle and peril, endured with the abounding high spirits for which he was renowned. He experienced the murder of one brother by Sindhia and the public execution of another by the Peshwa. He took lightly even the loss of an eye by the bursting of a matchlock; jesting at the belief that a one-eyed man is wicked, he exclaimed that he had been bad enough before but would now surely be the guru or high priest of roguery. He was generous as well as witty, and his wildness was pardoned as part of the eccentricity of genius. He was of superior education as well as superior mental abilities, a skilled accountant and literate in Persian as well as Marathi.

" No member of his race ever possessed the gift of guerilla warfare in such higher measures as did Yashwant Rao Holkar. His resources were always slight, but his energy and hopefulness boundless. When for the war that now followed he announced to his troopers that they must gather their own rewards and these conditions were accepted with enthusiasm. His reputation was such that, even when himself a fugitive from Scindiaks army, he had been continually strengthened by desertions from his pursuer. His personal courage was of the kind which soldiers most esteem, that of such leaders as Ney and Lannes, and he never lost his personal ascendancy until he lost his reason. "