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 reasoning], but they were quite ignorant of the Vedas, so much so that few of them knew the meanings of the Vedic words they used in their prayers.”

On the one hand there was this spiritual torpor in Calcutta, on the other there was a good deal of excitement attending the religious innovations introduced by Raja Rammohan Roy. Though the life of this great reformer is well known to the public, still we deem it necessary to say briefly something of him hereafter in the appendix, which will contain a short account of most of the important personages of the time.