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problem of untangling the web of Indian history. To this work your book is a valuable contribution.
PROFESSOR H. JACOBI, BONN.--Very suggestive and contains some important details.
PROFESSOR F. OTTO SCHRADER.-I have read the book with increasing interest and do not hesitate to say that it contains a great many details which will be found useful by later historians. The portion I enjoyed most is that on the sixteen Mahajanapadas.
II. The Early History of the Vaishnava Sect
Published by the Calcutta University
PROFESSOR E. WASHBURN HOPKINS, YALE UNIVERSITY, AMERICA.-Your book has given me great satisfaction......I am particularly pleased to see an incisive study of this kind in the realm of religious history......Believe me, in the hope of further contributions of this character from your able pen.........
PROFESSOR A. BERRIEDALE
KEITH, EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY. While I do not concur in your view as to the original character of Krsna, I recognise the care with which you have investigated the issue, and value highly the elaborate collation of the evidence which your work contains, and which will render it of much service to all students of this doubtless insoluble problem. The stress laid on the epigraphic evidence and the full use made of it is of special value, while in many details your opinions are of interest and value, as in the case of the date of Pāṇini...
SIR GEORGE GRIERSON.-Very interesting and informing......The book is full of matter which is of great importance for the history of religion in India and will form a valued addition to my collection of books on the subject...
F. E. PARGITER, OXFORD.-I agree with you in discarding various theories, but I don't think Krsna Devakiputra is the famous Krsaa, and it seems to me your exposition can stand just as well without the identification as with it. Your book will help to elucidate the whole matter, but are you sure that the cult does not owe something to Christianity?
