Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /18

OF COLTURE
 
GOVERNMENT
 
162
 
2014
 
संस्कृति मंत्राल
 
ENT OF INDIA
 
.
 
● भारत सरकार
 
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
 
FEW books in Sanskrit sacred literature
appeal so much to the hearts of millions

appeal so much to the hearts of millions
of Indians as the Ramayana, the

Mahabharata and the Bhagavata. I feel

most thankful that it has been given to

me to present to the Public in rapid
succession these precious compilations of

succession these precious compilations of
the great triad wherein lie embedded all

that is noble and inspiring in
Hindu
religion, philosophy and culture.
Care-
fully compiled and translated
into
simple, readable English, these books

will, in the words of a great Orientalist,

"form a source of joy to the thorough

knower of the epics as well as to the person

who reads them for the first time, to the

orthodox as much as to the modern, for

youth as well as for riper age, for the

Western reader as much as for the

Eastern ".
 
into
 
Hindu
Care
 
It only remains for me to express my
profound gratitude to Sir Sivaswamy
Aiyer-
It only remains for me to express my
profound gratitude to Sir Sivas-the finest embodiment of Eastern
and Western culture--for his great
kindness in wamy
Aiyer-the finest embodiment of Eastern
and Western culture-for his great
kindness in riting the Forewriting the Foreword to this
ord to this
work.
 

 
Jan. 1937.
 
751-2
 
G. A. NATESAN.
 
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