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PREFATORY NOTES
BY THE AUTHOR
The first of the two treatises, composing this little volume, appeared in the Indian Antiquary 1902 and is reprinted here with the kind permission of the editor Sir Richard Temple. The appendix "On the Philosophy of the Vedânta" was originally an address delivered before the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, the 25th February 1893.
Both treatises complete in some way each other, the first being a very short summary of the history of the Indian philosophy, the second giving a concise idea of that religious and philosophical system, which more than any other is ruling in India even in our days.
A fuller account of the subjects treated in this little volume may be found in the following works of the same author:
Allgemeine Geschichte der Philosophie mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Religionen, vol. 1: Allgemeine Einleitung und Philosophie des Veda bis auf die Upanishads, vol. II: Die Philosophie der Upanishads (translated into English by Rev. A. S. Geden under the title: The Philosophy of the Upanishads, Edinburgh 1906); vol. III: (in preparation) Die nachvedische Philosophie der Inder.
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