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PREFACE
This booklet contains a lecture delivered by Dr. Miss Charlotte Krause, Ph. D., the wellknown German scholar in Indian scriptures, in the year 1929, under the presidentship of the then Advocate-General T. R. Venkatarama Sastri, when His Holiness the Acharya Sri Vijayendra Suriji and Upadhyaya Sri Mangalavijayaji stayed in Madras for Chaturmāsya and for giving religious Vyakhyānas and discourses.
I came to Madras at the end of that year 1929 and so I did not have the opportunity of meeting Dr. Krause; but I came across a copy of her lecture which was then printed. While I liked her exposition, I found the language somewhat difficult for general readers. Since then I had been cherishing a keen desire to get this lecture simplified, so that any English-knowing lay person could understand it, and have it translated into Gujarati as well.
I met last year Sri Balchandra M. Parikh, M. A., (Palanpur, Gujarat), who undertook to do both the simplified version and the Gujarati translation. But before publishing the lecture as adapted by Sri Parikh, I showed it to Dr. V. Raghavan of the Madras University, a great Sanskrit scholar whom I have known for the past ten years and more. At my request he went through this simplified version of the lecture and approved of its publication. His words of appreciation and his going through
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