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50 readers) which enables me to perceive that mere fancies are often mistaken for realities, especially when the said authors think that they are "inspired."

If Sanjaya really represented the angelic intelligence which communicated the truths embodied in the Bhagvatgita to Vyasa, it is surprising to find in the last chapter—the very chapter, in fact, which, in the opinion of the author, contains the key for the clear understanding of the whole philosophy—Sanjaya informing Dhritarashtra that by favour of Vyasa (Vyasa prasadana) he was able to hear the mystic truths revealed by Krishna. Sanjaya's meaning would be rendered clear by the account of the arrangement made by the Vyasa for getting information of the war between the Pandavas and the Kouravas to the blind Dhritarashtra given at the commencement of Bheeshmaparva. Vyasa, in fact, endowed Sanjaya, for the time being, with the powers of Dooradrishti and Doorasravanam, and made him invulnerable, so that he might be present on the battle-field and report everything to the blind old man. These facts recorded in the "Mahabharata" are quite inconsistent with the author's theory unless we are prepared to admit that Vyasa has published deliberate falsehoods, with the intention of concealing the real authorship of the "Mahabharata." But the author informs us that "recorders," like Vyasa, "very wisely keep their own personalities in the shade." I must, therefore, assume that the author's suppositions about Sanjaya and angelic intelligences are erroneous until the facts are proved to be incorrect.

III. Again in page 54 of his book, in giving his interpretation of the words Krishna and Dwypayana, he says that Krishna means black, and Dwypayana, difficult to attain, which "spiritnally interpreted symbolises the states of mankind to whom the revelation was made."

The author evidently means to suggest, by this passage, that the appellation given to Vyasa contains some evidence of the revelation made by Busiris. And here, again, the author is misinterpreting the Sanskrit word "Dwypayana"