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INTRODUCTION
put on lasting record a strong rationalistic case for Hinduism against Christianity.
However, our knowledge regarding the author
and his environments would remain Ralical Change
awfully incomplete if it stopped only in the Author
with what the Šāstratattvavinirnayo states or suggests in the matter, for, N is known to hare revolted against himself and to have, only four years later, actually embraced Christianity to prove a most formidable antagonist to his original faith for the rest of his life! The following brief account of N is based on a short Hindi biography of Ni published by the Christian Literature Society for India, on other published sources, and also on some divergent details gathered by me personally from some descendants of his ex-relations and other conversant persons at Banaraz and other places.
N was born on 8. 2. 1825 in a Citpārana Brāhmaņa
family of Mahāristra surnamed Gore His Earlier
that had inigrated first to BundelCareer
khand and later on to Banaras. His father Sivarāma Pant Gore was one of the five sons of Dinakara Pant Gore who was a retired Dewan of Nawab Ali Bahadur of Banda. Many other members
1. Life of Father Goreh—ofoca di Tiai al fica para, 2nd edition, Allahabad, 1927. Late Rev. A. Russel Graham of the Canadian Mission, Ujjain, took the pains of kindly procuring a copy of this book for me in 1941. I have shown in my paper in the NIA that the reckoning of time as also the recording of dates in this biograpliy is sometimes inaccu
rate or gro98."
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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