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INTRODUCTION
In my paper "Šāstratattvavinirņaya: the Work and
its Author” published in the March The Work 1942 issue of the New Indian Antiquary
it has been shown that the Šāstratattvavinirnaya is a work by the well-known Pandit Nilakantha Sastri Gore alias Father Nehemiah Goreh (=N) and that it was composed by him about four years before his conversion by way of refutation of the doctrines of Christianity and defence of the tenets of orthodox Hinduism, most probably as a rejoinder to John Muir's Sanskrit work entitled Matapurikșă.
The Śăstratattvavinirnaya consists of 784 anustubh
verses divided into six chapters of Short Synopsis varied dimensions. The contents of
each chapter, which can be discerned grossly from its title noted in the respective colophon, may be outlined here very briefly. Chapter 1 opens with the author's obeisances to
God Visņu and to his father Sivarama Chapter 1 and mother Girija and short prologue
wherein he mentions his own name ( =Nilakantha) and the title of the present work. Then the author sets to deal with the question whether the creed of Christianity is worth accepting or not. In the
1. NIA, Vol. IV, No. 12, Pp. 397-413. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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