Aspects Of Indian Thought

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Aspects Of Indian Thought The following pages embody a few selected papers of mine on some aspects of ancient Indian thought. Of these papers, one (pages 1-44) was originally published in 1923-24 in the Annals of Bhandarkar Research Institute, Poona, another (pages 175-215) formed a part of the work entitled Philosophy-Eastern and Western’ sponsored by the Government of India Education Ministry and published under its auspices in the year 1950, and the rest came out from time to time between 1920 and 1988 in the pages of the Sarasvati Bhavan’s Studies edited mostly by myself on behalf of the U. P. Government as a Research Journal of the Government Sanskrit College, Benares. It will appear from a look at the contents that the papers published within 1920 and 1988 deal with ancient Indian thought in its varied aspects covering a wide field including its different schools, philosophical, religious or cultural and spiritual.

After the papers had been written and published I took no further notice of them, for I had no idea in my mind at that time that they would ever appear in the form of a book. The entire credit of bringing out these papers lie with my ‘devoted young friend Dr. Govinda Gopal Mukhopadhyaya, who has done everything in this connection-collecting the papers, preparing transcripts of the selected pieces for the press, arranging them in order, going through the arduous task of reading the proofs and editing the whole work. What can I render him in return for all these labours of love? Really I have nothing for him but a sense of mute gratefulness mixed with an outpouring of the heart in the shape of sincere blessings. May God grant him a long life of health and happiness.