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change in the religious life of Pandit Guru Datta becomes all the more
prominent and striking when one reads the above mentioned lecture
along with his other writings. It is, indeed, very strange that the subject
of religion, which is so much decried in.that lecture, soon after became
a favourite topic of his written as well as oral discourses.
It is worth notice that some of the fragments of his Criticism on
Professor Monier Williams' "Indian Wisdom," as embodied in this
volume, are entirely new, and others different from what was already
in print on the subject. These additions and changes have been made
with the help of the original manuscript in the author's own
handwriting which were so fondly and carefully preserved by me.
Some mistakes of omission and commission have also been rectified
with the help of the same manuscripts. Besides, I have made certain
alterations which the sense of the text rendered imperative.
The present Volume is the first of its series.3 It is presented to
the public with a view to encourage the appreciation of the Aryan
Shastras among those of my countrymen who cannot have recourse
to them in their original Sanskrit language.
Should this Volume find a ready sale, which I hope it will,
I shall soon bring out the second one, which will contain the
remaining contributions of Panditji to the
Ania Patrika,
and his
articles published in the
Regenerator of Arya Varta,
now extinct.
Lahore JIVAN DAS, Pensioner
15th October, 1897 (Vice-President, Lahore Arya Samaj)
Note by the Editor (Dr. Ram Prakash)
1. Three issues of Vedic Magazine were published during his life time in
July, August and September 1889. The fourth and the last issue was
published in 1890 after his death.
2. This booklet is not available today. The note written by Pandit Guru
Datta Vidyarthi was included only in the first edition and not in second
or third edition of his collected works.
3. Later Lala Jivan Dass edited part II of his collected works as well as twelve
volumes of 'Papers for the Thoughtful.'
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