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INTRODUCTION.
languages within 3 or 4 years. In this short time he
studied not only the poets and philosophers of Persia
and Arabia, among whom the Sufis, whose mystic
philosophy resembled the philosophy of Vadanta and
yoga, pleased him most, but he also read Aristotle and
Euclid in Arabic and became a true Moulovi, as he was
called in after life.
In his twelfth year Ram Mohun Roy was sent to
Benares to study Sanskrit. Benares was then and is
still the principal seat of Sanskrit learning especially
<>f the Vedantic philosophy. Ram Mohun Roy stayed
there till his sixteenth year, and diligently studied the
literature and the philosophy of the old Hindus ; and
itl was here that he imbibed the monotheistic tenets of
tjhe Vedanta and the Upanishads, and he came back
from Benares a determined enemy of idolatry and the
religious evils of his country.
Soon after his return home Ram Mohun Roy wrote, it
1 s said, a treatise against the idolatry of the Hindus, which
caused a rupture between father and son and young as he
was, he left his paternal roof and wandered for four years
from place to place, alone and without a friend. It wa'
during this time that he travelled to Tibet where r £
learnt the doctrines of Buddhism at its principal se ^
His assertion of monotheistic doctrines there nearly c^e
him his life, but the kindness of the women of T..
jitter,
saved him from all dangers and difficulties,—a kirjt. ^
which he never forgot, and which, as he said fort c
0 ' ' oa fami-
.after, made him always feel the warmest res
' J was the
gratitude towards the gentler sex. ^ that ^
After four years, he was recalled home b\, ,
J ' . ^Is between
who was heart-broken, as he said, like D
j differences,
he
languages within 3 or 4 years. In this short time he
studied not only the poets and philosophers of Persia
and Arabia, among whom the Sufis, whose mystic
philosophy resembled the philosophy of Vadanta and
yoga, pleased him most, but he also read Aristotle and
Euclid in Arabic and became a true Moulovi, as he was
called in after life.
In his twelfth year Ram Mohun Roy was sent to
Benares to study Sanskrit. Benares was then and is
still the principal seat of Sanskrit learning especially
<>f the Vedantic philosophy. Ram Mohun Roy stayed
there till his sixteenth year, and diligently studied the
literature and the philosophy of the old Hindus ; and
itl was here that he imbibed the monotheistic tenets of
tjhe Vedanta and the Upanishads, and he came back
from Benares a determined enemy of idolatry and the
religious evils of his country.
Soon after his return home Ram Mohun Roy wrote, it
1 s said, a treatise against the idolatry of the Hindus, which
caused a rupture between father and son and young as he
was, he left his paternal roof and wandered for four years
from place to place, alone and without a friend. It wa'
during this time that he travelled to Tibet where r £
learnt the doctrines of Buddhism at its principal se ^
His assertion of monotheistic doctrines there nearly c^e
him his life, but the kindness of the women of T..
jitter,
saved him from all dangers and difficulties,—a kirjt. ^
which he never forgot, and which, as he said fort c
0 ' ' oa fami-
.after, made him always feel the warmest res
' J was the
gratitude towards the gentler sex. ^ that ^
After four years, he was recalled home b\, ,
J ' . ^Is between
who was heart-broken, as he said, like D
j differences,
he