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simplicity and perspicacity of style. In cases where the text is obscured by the technicalities peculiar to the subject, the translator has given ample annotations at foot of each page explaining te terms and contexts, so as to enable the student of Vedantism understand the subject without any external aid, and also in vie to make the translation itself lucid and unmistakable. The translator appears to us to have acquitted himself well, and from the way in which he has done his work, there can be no doubt that he has mastered the subject he has undertaken to handle, in a way profitable to others also."
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Indian Nation in speaking of the work in its issue of the 3rd September 1883 says:
"It gives the Sanskrit text, and translations in Hindi, Bengali and English. The Sanskrit text is largely any stated. There is also a very learned, philosophical dissertation on the doctrines of the Vedantasara aud corresponding European systems. The book is well got up; and a better edition would hardly be desired."
The Theosophist in reviewing the work thus remarks in its September number 1883:
"The views, at any rate in its first English part,-being avowedly those expressed in the columns of our magazine, very little has to be said of this portion, except that the author has inade uncommon good use of it and elaborated very cleverly the whole: One point, however, may be noticed, as it is found to be constantly contradicted and picked holes into, by the theists as well as by all the supporters of independent creation-viz., the definition of
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"Kapila defines - matter to be eternal and co-existent with. Spirit. It was never in a state of non-being but always in a stato constant change, it is subtle and sentient," &c. &c., (P. 2.)'
"This is what the Editor of this Journal has all along maintained and can hardly repent too often. The article: "What is Matter and what is Force ?" in the Theosophist for September 1882, is sufficiently lucid in reference to this question. It is at the same time pleasant to fud that Our learned friend and brother, Mr. T. Subba Rao Garu, the great Adwaitee scholar, shares entirely with all of us these views, which every intutional scholar who comprehends the true spirit of the Sankha Philosophy, will ever maintain. This may be proved by the terusal of a recent work
