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cation mostly in England. However, the knowledge of the existence of sub-schools among Christians which came to him rather late had caused him much surprise. Subsequently many times he had been labouring under proposals for shifting from one sub-school to the other. In the course of his second foreign trip he is said to have met with occasions of hatred and contempt at the hands of some Englishmen on account of his being an Indian.
N's pen, too, has played a prominent role in his
missionary activities. He wrote or N Anthor of
of revised translations of the books of Sereral Works
the Bible in various Indian languages and prepared and published several critical works in Hindi, Marathi and English for the uplift of the cause of Christianity. The most important among his published works is the Şaddarśanadarpana in Hindi which is devoted solely to lay bare several loopholes and weak points in the Six Hindu Systems of Philosophy with a view to establishing the consequent superiority of the Christian scriptures over them. The treatment herein, learned and elaborate as it is, is wholly propagandistic. and its fault-finding is at several places of a hair-splitting character. The original work was published first in 1860 and has hitherto gone through sis impressions. With a view to decrying the Six Systems in the eyes of
1. The darghter was subsequently residing mostly at Allahabad and was alive at least up to 1924.
2. The sixth impression has been published only in 1950 by the North India Christian Tract and Book Society of Allahabad. It conceals the author's name and simply states “THEIT T# qiliza à e " on the inner title-page.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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