Shastratattvanirnay

Author(s): Nilkanth
Publisher: Scindia Oriental Institute

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Preface
The intellectual, psychological and historical aspects of the Śāstratattvavinirnaya and its consequent importance even today, notwithstanding the subsequent desertion of its original cause by the author, would be amply borne out by the following Introduction. No further apology is therefore needed for publication of this hitherto hidden work.
In this Śāstratattvavinirnaya the author appears mostly on the defensive. However, the Saddarśanadarpana, his own post-conversion work, is exactly of the type of Miss Mayo's Mother India, putting forth sweeping generalisations against Hindu Religion and Philosophy on the basis of some alleged deficiencies in particulars. The Christian Mission in its anti-Hindu zeal has naturally given a wide circulation to that work just as the British Conservatives had patronised Miss Mayo's work. But while the anti-Indian attitude of the Churchill group has now almost cooled down with the dawn of Indian independence, the Christian missionaries still seem to be harping on their old tunes. In his foreword to the recent 1950 edition of the Şaḍdarsanadarpana, Rev. P. John of Patna states:
" षड्दर्शनदर्पण की अन्तिम छपाई सन् १९१५ ई. में हुई i...... पिछले ३५ वर्षों में कतिपय आश्चर्यजनक घटनाएं संसार के सभी