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Dayanada
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Arya Samaj 13
religion.' He was a Luther fighting against his own
misled and misguided Church of Rome,' and his first
care was to throw open the wells of the holy books,
so that for the first time his people could come to
them and drink for themselves. He translated and
wrote commentaries on the Vedas in the
vernacular3— Its was in truth an epoch-making
realm of the soul. He wished to break the bounds of heresy,
but he failed. He died in the midst of his campaign for
freedom, but he himself remained caught by Jainistic
decoys, particularly by Maya, which inspired in
Dayananda—no dreamer of dreams but aman firmly
implanted in the soil of reality — an invincible repugnance.
' He called all idolatry a sin and considered that
Divine Incarnations were absurd and sacrilegious.
2
He scourged the Brahmins with the name of Popes.
3
Between 1876-1883, he directed a whole train of
pandits. He wrote in Sanskrit and the pandits
translated into the dialects. He alone however
translated the original text. His translation which he
had no time to revise is always preceded by
grammatical and etymological analysis of each verse
followed by commentary explaining the general sense.