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INTRODUCTION
European scholars, tbe Mission got this work translated into English by the renowned orientalist Fitz-Edward Hall, then an Inspector of Schools in C. P. in Imperial Government Service, under the guidance of the original author himself and published it under the title A Rational Refutation of the Hindu Philosophical Systems in 1862. However, with the exceptions of Fitz-Edward Hall and G. A. Jacob, few European orientalists of note have accepted the general conclusion arrived at in this work on the basis of their alleged particular deficiencies, and the Six Systems and other ancient literature of the Hindus have continued to play the magnet on star scholars like Deusson, Max Müller, Thibaut, Venis, Keith, etc. In 1890 N published a further propagandistic essay in English against the Six Systems. The most important among his Marathi works? is an essay on the religion of Tukārāma, entitled a TAC Tafiasreti sa and published in 1892, wherein N, controverting the Prarthana-Samājists and the Brahmo-Samājists, upholds that the great Maratha saint follows rather in the footsteps of Christ. Some well-informed Banaras Pandits say that N
probably sometime during the closing N's Death and
years of his life twice or thrice ap Burial
proached his early friends, now aged Pandits, in a strain of repentence, but the friends declined even to exchange kind looks with him. However,
1. Vide his Preface to the N. S. P. First Edition of the Vedāntasöra (1893).
2. Vide S. G. Date's ACIS-DU-TE (8600-888.), Poona, 1943, Pp. 86, 99, 106, 118, 223 for various Marathi works by N.
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