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The aim of this book is to be a corrective of that semi-
un-believer. The author is an agent of the Lord and what an
agent is has already been stated. The author of this book, Sri
Balavyasa Varanasi Subrahmanya Sastry, is a savant of Andhra
Desa under whom scores of students have studied many Sastras.
The book is a standing testimony for his being thousand-edged.
He quots copiously from almost all Sastras, Puranas and Samhi-
tas, brings in the aptest quotations, marshals arguments in a
matchless manner. For the use of the common man, he has
translated all Sanskrit quotations. His Telugu prose style is
lucid and easily understandable; but sometimes it cannot but
be terse and rather difficult to follow. His commentary on the
aphorism "Loka Vidwishtam parityajet Nachereth" is an exam-
ple. The subtlety of the argument is too difficult to be under-
stood, it cannot but be so. It can only be explained that way.
For one who is untutored in the meshes of logic, some things
always remain unattained. A great scholar is often prone to
disregard the changes of life and the surges of fate. There must
be something or that force of God, that is the creator and the
sustainer in him for doing this kind of work, and this Balavyasa
seems to have it in abundance. He has previously produced 4
volumes of criticism disproving the ungest and wayward acqui-
sitions of the unvedic-minded people. That book is something
like an axe applied to the branches but this book is a blow at the
root of that vicious tree.
If one is tempted to find a trace of insufficiency in this
book, it is as regards his criticism levelled against Budhism.
Budhism is a religion widely read about nowadays from innu-
merable books written by Western scholars and his criticism of
Budhism mainly treats with the charges made against the four
Schools of thought taken up by Sri Sankaracharya. And almost
all doubts of the believer are cleared and all the questions of the
doubters are answered. This is almost a compendium of the
salient points of the Vedic religion. A part from many things,
one great question is solved here, the one question that conjured
up the bogey of the untrue chronology which has completely
upset the balance of the stable traditional mind. It is about the
date of Budha. The Western historians have purposely and
wilfully shuffled the facts to bring out the magic card. Friest
The aim of this book is to be a corrective of that semi-
un-believer. The author is an agent of the Lord and what an
agent is has already been stated. The author of this book, Sri
Balavyasa Varanasi Subrahmanya Sastry, is a savant of Andhra
Desa under whom scores of students have studied many Sastras.
The book is a standing testimony for his being thousand-edged.
He quots copiously from almost all Sastras, Puranas and Samhi-
tas, brings in the aptest quotations, marshals arguments in a
matchless manner. For the use of the common man, he has
translated all Sanskrit quotations. His Telugu prose style is
lucid and easily understandable; but sometimes it cannot but
be terse and rather difficult to follow. His commentary on the
aphorism "Loka Vidwishtam parityajet Nachereth" is an exam-
ple. The subtlety of the argument is too difficult to be under-
stood, it cannot but be so. It can only be explained that way.
For one who is untutored in the meshes of logic, some things
always remain unattained. A great scholar is often prone to
disregard the changes of life and the surges of fate. There must
be something or that force of God, that is the creator and the
sustainer in him for doing this kind of work, and this Balavyasa
seems to have it in abundance. He has previously produced 4
volumes of criticism disproving the ungest and wayward acqui-
sitions of the unvedic-minded people. That book is something
like an axe applied to the branches but this book is a blow at the
root of that vicious tree.
If one is tempted to find a trace of insufficiency in this
book, it is as regards his criticism levelled against Budhism.
Budhism is a religion widely read about nowadays from innu-
merable books written by Western scholars and his criticism of
Budhism mainly treats with the charges made against the four
Schools of thought taken up by Sri Sankaracharya. And almost
all doubts of the believer are cleared and all the questions of the
doubters are answered. This is almost a compendium of the
salient points of the Vedic religion. A part from many things,
one great question is solved here, the one question that conjured
up the bogey of the untrue chronology which has completely
upset the balance of the stable traditional mind. It is about the
date of Budha. The Western historians have purposely and
wilfully shuffled the facts to bring out the magic card. Friest