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48 Taking either of those two propositions, one may naturally expect that some evidence will be found either in the or the remaining portions of the  in support of them. And, as the author assures us (p. 181) that the individuals, who collect the utterances of angelic intelligences and reduce them to written form, very "wisely keep their own personalities in the shade," we are led to believe that this expectation is likely to be realised. But the whole of the internal evidence, gathered by the author on behalf of his angelic hero, amounts only to this:—

1. Vyasa means a "Recorder:" therefore the word was purposely applied to Krishna Dwapayana to indicate his real position as regards the authorship as the.

Now I beg to submit, in reply to this argument, that Vyasa does not exactly mean a recorder; but that it means one who expands or amplifies.* The thing or doctrine explained or amplified by him, is a mystery to the uninitiated public. This term was applied to the Guru in India in ancient times; and the author will be able to find in the "Linga Puran" that the author of the  was the 28th Vyasa in the order of succession. I shall not now attempt to explain the real meaning of the 28 incarnations therein mentioned,† but I shall only say that the entity, amplified