S88 दिक् (श । sume a dozen of years of the most valuable period of their lives in acquiring the niceties of Baikarana or Sanskrit Grammar. For instance, in learning to discuss such points as the following : khada, signifying to eat, khadati he or she or it eats; query, whether does khadati taken as a whole conveys the meaning he, she or it eats, or are separate parts of this meaning conveyed by distinctions of the word. As if in the English language it were asked how much meaning is there in the eat and how much in the 8 And is the whole meaning of the word conveyed by these two portions of it distinctly or by them taken jointly ? “Neither can much improvement arise from such speculations as the following which are the themes suggested by the Wedanta;-in what manner is the soul absorbed in the Diety ? What relation does it bear to the Divine Essence Nor will youths be fitted to be better members of society by the Vedantic doctrines which teach them to believe, that all visible things have no real existence, that as father brother, &c. have no actual entity they consequently deserve no real affection, and therefore, the sooner we escape from them and leave the world the better. Again, no essential benefit can be derived by the student of the Minansa from knowing what it is that makes the killer of a goat sinless by pronouncing certain passages of the Vedanta and what is the real nature and operative influence of passages of the Vedas, &c. 'The student of the Naya Shastra cannot be said to have improved his mind after he has learned from it into how many ideal classes the objects in the universe are devided and
