१८८ भारतीय साम्राज्य. [भाग related wlatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of his religion." " Such an acknowledgement will naturally excite suspicion that a writer who has so openly violated one of the fundamental laws of history has not paid a very strict regard to the observance of the other." कांही पाश्चात्यांची अशा प्रकारची मत्सरबुद्धि, व त्यांतही विशेषतः विद्वान आणि पाश्चात्यांच्या विप क्षवृत्तीचा मसला. बहुश्रुत मंडळीचीही तीक्ष्ण असूया पाहून, अशी कोणाचीही सहजी कल्पना होते की ह्या लोकांनी हिंदूंविषयीं विपक्षवृत्तीचें अवलंबन केल्या कारणानें, हिंदूंचा धर्म, त्यांच्या संस्था, त्यांचीं शास्त्रे, त्यांचे कलासमूह, आणि त्यांचे तत्वविचार, १ “ I should like to see a possibility by which we could explain the addition not of the Valakhilya hymns only, but of other much more modern sounding hymns, at a later time than the period of the Pratishàkhya. " “ I say again that I am not free from mis- givings on the subject, and my critical conscience would be far better satisfied if we could ascribe the Pratishakya, and all it presupposes to a much later date." Maxmuller. (Translation of the Rigveda. I Introduction. )
