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INTRODUCTION
In the second half the author furnishes a brief,
yet lucid and vivid, exposition' of Chapter 6: Second Half Half the (Advaita! Vedānta Philosophy and
demonstrates logically and with the help of illustrations how the entire structure of that divine system is built on a most rational and unshakable foundation.
In both the halves of Chapter 6, as elsewhere, the author incidentally points out several deficient passages in the Christian Philosophy and tries to prove on comparison how the corresponding treatment in the Vedānta and other Hindu Darsanas alone is tenable. He concludes after making an appropriate eulogy of Hindu Religion and its scriptures and noting the date (Śaka 1766=c. 1844-45 A. C.) and place ( Kāsi=Banaras) of his composition of the work,
The Šāstratattvavinirnaya is thus a work by a
talented Banaras Pandit of much Brief Review afshe work religious zeal who had not only mas
tered the orthodox Hindu systems of Philosophy and other branches of learning but had also studied closely and critically the Old and New Testaments of the Bible and had also acquainted himself with the elements of modern sciences as current in his time. His excellent command over Sanskrit3 is displayed
1. Vide also the author's own explanatory note on VIb. 153. 2. Vide Vla. 153ff., 184ff., VIb. 281f., 86ff., 91ff., 104ff., 141ff., etc.
3. The fact that the author was then only a youth of nineteen adds fur. ther significance to this feature.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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