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INTRODUCTION
XXXV that he rendered substantial help to the author in preparing its expanded edition of 1852.
An answer to the Matapariksa entitled Matroparikşottaram in Sanskrit by Haracandra Tarkapañcānana, a Bengali Pandit, appears to have been published in Bengali script from Calcutta in 1840, i.e. four or five years prior to N's composition of the ŠāstratattvavinirncYCt. From the nature of the Miscaparikså one would be
inclined to infer its author to be a John Muir:
zealous missionary. However, the A Brief Sketch
probability is at once contradicted by the fact, since John Muir was a distinguished member of the East India Company's Indian Civil Service!
He was son of a merchant of Glasgow where he was born in 1810. He was educated at the Glasgow University and a few other institutions, among which was also the East India Company's College at Haileybury. He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1823 and retired in 1853, having filled various important offices like Assistant Secretary to the Board of Revenue, Allahabad, Magistrate and Collector, Azamgarh, Principal Queen's College, Banaras, and Civil and Sessions Judge, Fatehpur. He was an enthusiastic Sanskrit scholar himself and encouraged the Indians to persue the studies of Sanskrit on comparative lines current in the West. He wrote a number of books in Sanskrit. English and modern Indian languages and
1. British yuseum Catalogue, 1876, Pp. 48, 91. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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