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viii Preface.
perusal of the following pages will show that what I
have written is not amenable to any such imputation.
Nor do I claim for the present work any unusual
immunity from error. Mistakes will, probably, be
found in it. The subject of which it treats is far too
intricate to admit of my pretending to a more than
human accuracy. Nor can any one scholar hope to
unravel with complete success the complicated texture
of Hindu religious thought and life.
As to the second part of my task I am happy to say
that it is already far advanced. But, as I am on the
eve of making a third journey to India, I prefer delay-
ing the publication of my account of other Indian
creeds till I have cleared up a few obscure points by
personal inquiries in situ.
It is possible, I fear, that some who read the chapters
of this volume consecutively, and are also acquainted
with my previous writings, may be inclined to accuse
me of occasionally repeating myself; but it must be
borne in mind that all I have hitherto written—
whether in books, newspapers, or Reviews—was, from
the first, intended to lead up to a more complete and
continuous work, and that the book now put forth
abounds with entirely new matter.
It remains to state that my friend Pandit Shyamaji
Krishnavarma, B.A., of Balliol College, has aided me
in correcting typographical errors, but is in no way re-
sponsible for the statements and opinions expressed
in the following pages.
M. W.
Oxford, November 12, 1883.
perusal of the following pages will show that what I
have written is not amenable to any such imputation.
Nor do I claim for the present work any unusual
immunity from error. Mistakes will, probably, be
found in it. The subject of which it treats is far too
intricate to admit of my pretending to a more than
human accuracy. Nor can any one scholar hope to
unravel with complete success the complicated texture
of Hindu religious thought and life.
As to the second part of my task I am happy to say
that it is already far advanced. But, as I am on the
eve of making a third journey to India, I prefer delay-
ing the publication of my account of other Indian
creeds till I have cleared up a few obscure points by
personal inquiries in situ.
It is possible, I fear, that some who read the chapters
of this volume consecutively, and are also acquainted
with my previous writings, may be inclined to accuse
me of occasionally repeating myself; but it must be
borne in mind that all I have hitherto written—
whether in books, newspapers, or Reviews—was, from
the first, intended to lead up to a more complete and
continuous work, and that the book now put forth
abounds with entirely new matter.
It remains to state that my friend Pandit Shyamaji
Krishnavarma, B.A., of Balliol College, has aided me
in correcting typographical errors, but is in no way re-
sponsible for the statements and opinions expressed
in the following pages.
M. W.
Oxford, November 12, 1883.