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a JNANA to the common people who can read Bengali (only-and he has also at the same time enriched his own vernacular literature. The Introductio, appended.', to the book is its most striking feature. It is a study iu. itself; and we feel sure it will amply repay a very. close and careful perusal, we never came across such an admirable introduction in any book in Bengali or other indian vernacular. In it the auto examines the Vedanta philosophy in all its details, according to the ight thrown by the commentaries of the great sankara, and he expounds the great Mayu la d with a clearness nowhere to be found. The liaiso had of Sankara has been misunderstood and misinterpreted by many. Even scholars of great enninence-let alone the si common people-have thought that Sankara did not acknowledge the existence of the cosmos, holding it to be false and illusory and that his idea of Brahma was a ; sorb if Vacutu-without consciousness, without power- something like a cypher-a non-entity. Some have gone so far as to brand that great Achariya as ah. atheist, a Bonddha at heart. The readers of the Introduction will find how ably and brilliantly the learned author has proved, beyond all possible doubt, that the charges laid at the door of Sankara has been without any foundation and it is owing to ignorance or misun derstanding of the teachings of the great master that such false notions have had their origin. In short, the Pandit vidyaratna has succeeded in vindicating the, name and fame of Sankara and established the claims of: '! ჯ*