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INTRODUCTION
xxi Holy Bible were meant to be perused not critically but in a strain of faith.
Even subsequently N continued to meet Smith
very often. In one of these meetings, Composition of this Vork
" early in 1814, Smith presented to
him a copy of John Muir's Mataparikṣā. N went through this Matupariksā closely, prepared in a few months his Sanskrit refutation of the same, which is in all likelihood this very Śāstratattvavinirnaya, and handed over its final MS to Smith for being forwarded to John Muir. Whether the MS. ever reached John Muir is not known.
Smith, like some other Fathers of his generation
.., imported in India, was indeed a practiThe Author Mesmer
se cal psychologist. Very soon he discovered to himself that N was just the type of Indian the Christian Mission in India needed very badly to attract higher class Hindus into its fold. He therefore encouraged N to repeat his visits often and again, notwithstanding the wordly defeats he himself had to suffer in their course, and ere long succeeded in entrapping the fish in his net. In a few months N was completely mesmerised by the Father's sweet and charming manners and most cordial and attractive surroundings, which at once stood in marked contrast with the stern and dull atmosphere prevailing at his home and that of jealousy and selfishness prevailing in his society. Notice or reports of dedicatory carriers of the European missionaries attending on poverty-stricken or forlorn people suffering from abhorrent infectious
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