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›ፃ8 তত্ত্ববোধিনী পত্রিকা ৮ কলস, ২ ভাগ _ _ _ است. مساحت است. سیسی-یجحیت بی. سیصنعتیق ع REM IN } SCENCES OF Η Α Μ Μ () Η (; Ν ΚΟΥ L3 Y A FRIENL). I can not at this distance of time o!!eet, the exact idows of Ham Mohun Hoy regaiding the narrative parts of the Oid Testaunent which undoubtedly mark a stage of progress in learning surp tssing that attained by the Hindoos in this way. Laying aside the fables which are found embodied in the Pentatouch to give a holy character to those Hooks, they certainly contain all the histor scal facts which the author co all am ass i na ainong-t his country nien l'ut ut o ei vicisin has purg od t’, :to of most of the corrupt and incongruous matter they had imbibed, but origin. ally they complised the whole nucleus of lobrew history. In this point of view th · Jows appeal te have excellel the i I indios, nowever backward they m rht have sullen in their doctrines of faith and religious literature. 13ut is my m, mory does not much fail me, Ram molitin Коy (* »rısidvı s"d Most s {\,\! {\. \' was a , of his own nation The Hindoo Vy sa did the sante thing, but he di v de l his history into two su parate parts in the Veda he collected overy thing with the could trace of the thoughts of the higher ord,ors of his uation in ord to tood and H is attributes and of what was considered the most approprote inodes of worshipping Hilm, ac. ording to the models laid down by th. It shis and teachers of Tsindoo 1 g a for the instruction of the comni : ; ; ; ; 13 nor unt people at various tj.: 3 s. ‘i’i, e ti. d tional histories of what 1.1 m hosi kon, and spoken in their progress through civ zation Were separot ly gathered in the Puranas and t tiilas is to which the Vedas frequently res r1, d. The facts detailed in these ; , , , works wore from the beginning n . ; lirely free from fall 8 and stories, ow. , toy of divine interference in the 4 in . of laan, and the Buddha an:inos los amil scuffles that, in spite of h, t /3'3rant prineiples of the Hindoo , , , , j onsued not loug after those liter. at , , oftections were roade, led to the "a 're,' ' ton of now tales and added to the rrors that had previously crept | uto tut authentic facts of Vyns . Such seems to have been the views of Ruum Mobun Roy 1egarding the early s ψάμΝη ηπαμπ απαρ ப_ _ ___ _ _ _ झनूख histories of the Jews and Hindoos. It is also an undoniable fact he used to say that the genius of the Ilindoos tended to the cultivation more of the i;nagination and the reasoning faculties of the mind than of the inemory which is so very deceptive at times and in all places. “In spite of the Official Reports and Goverument Proclamatious of the present times there are falsehoods creeping into the details of facts on every occasiou of the European wars and quarrels in India during the last century. No wonder ihon that the early histon y of every part of the world is replete with fictions of every sort.” IRam Mojun Roy, often told me that an excell at history of India could very well be written out of the materials of the Mahabharata and llamayana and some of the Puranas, but that it required grout critical powers of the mind to do this. Such powers wer, in exercise amongst the Jews duting many centuries defore the . Books of Moses received their existing forum. The nature of the Ilindoo {}overnment and the commotion to which Buddha and his soliow, is gave 1 ise in H indow so iety threw the Indian nations backwards in respect to this branch of literature. Their chronologv was entirely falsified by the Brol, man- on the hasis of astronomy, and their biogra phics were all lost or turned into fables The temporary successes of the Buddhas during several ages in the continent of India gave then a superiority in historical learning, The V das nowlhore assunes for themselves the rank of direct revelation or speeches from the mouth of God. The Mantras in the Samhitas contain only addresses to the different Towers ef nature, material, intellectual and moral. as pronounced by Rishis in a style of simplicity that is hardly to be excelled. These circumstances give an air of truth to the Hindoo Sruties, The preepts of Jesus, Rain Mohun Roy said, inculcate a 1nost beautiful system , of morality in a style suited to capacities of common people. The same lessons are taught in the Vodas but often in similes and metaphors of difficult comprehension. These are apparently addressed to the higher classes of peple. The lower orders, for instruction in