१३वा] वेद व वेदांगें. १०५ पर्यंत ज्यांचें अध्ययन, अशा डयुगडे स्टुवर्टनें निमि- पार्धीत पीस फिरवून, तिच्या कुटिल रचनेविषयीं एका क्षणांत अजिबात भट्ट मोक्षमूलर यांनी डयुगल्ड स्टुवर्ट याच्या मताचें केलेले खंडण. ठराव करून टाकला. शाबास ! ! ! ह्याचें नांव तर्कशक्ति ! ! ! आणि यालाच ह्मणावें अनेक शास्त्र पारंगमत्व ! ! ! ही शैले', हा घृष्टपणा, व हें वाक्- पांडित्य आह्मां पौरस्त्यांस खचितच साधणार नाही. बरें, ही संस्कृत ग्रंथ संपत्ति बनावटच असती तर, तिची वेदकालीन स्थिति व ऐतिहासिक परंपरा, तसेंच १. "Dugald Steward, rather than admit a rela- tionship between Hindus and Scots, would rather believe that the whole Sanskrit language and the whole of Sanskrit literature-mind, a literature ex- tending over three thousand years and larger than the ancient literature of either Greece or Rome, was a forgery of those wily priests, the Brahmans. " “ I could identify still more of these Vedic rivers, such as, for instance, the Kubhâ, the Greek Cophen, the modern Kabul river; but the names which I have traced from the Veda to Alexander, and in many cases from Alexander again to our own time seem to me sufficient to impress upon us the real and historical character of the Veda: Suppose the Veda were a forgery-suppose at least that it had been put together after the time of Alexander-how could we explain these names ?” (What can India teach us? )
