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Rh ideals, that it excited the admiration of great English scholars. He was an enthusiastic expounder of the principle that true national wealth comes primarily from trade, and secondarily from agriculture. That the door of commerce is not shut against Brahmins, and that they would never attain prosperity, unless they took to trade, was deeply impressed in his mind, illumined as it was with knowledge. He himself carried on trade, in order that others might follow him, and even after incurring great loss, never swerved from the paths of duty. Calm and enduring, he possessed by nature the boldness and the keen insight of a Western in matters of trade. His losses in business transactions were due mainly to his trusting his servants too much.

Taranath Tarkabachaspati stood by Vidyasagara regarding his views about the widow-remarriage system, and came out successful in debates with several pandits; but he was obliged to differ from him in his views regarding the prohibition of polygamy, for he showed that Vidyasagar's contention of polygamy being opposed to the Sastras was futile. In 1826 (Samvat) he published his work on "Dhaturupa," a few days before which he had established his fame by writing a commentary called Sarala on the great Sanskrit Grammar Sidhantakaumudi. His commentaries on several classical poems and dramas in Sanskrit are still famous. The greatest of his literary productions, Bachaspatyabhidhan, was published in 1874 A. D. For this he obtained aid from the Education Department. The fame of this excellent production extended far and wide throughout the civilised world, and drew pupils to him from China, Japan and Burma. Several European scholars used to come to him for visits. His literary productions alone enabled him to get out of his all-absorbing debts. He breathed his last on the 23rd June, 1885.