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subject of this memoir; and in dealing with that translation, as with the general scope of Pandit Sivanath Sastri’s work, I have judged it best to present it to the English reader very largely in its original state. I think that excessive alteration might degenerate into mutilation, might often obscure the sense of the original, and would certainly detract from the presentment of transparent sincerity, and of deep love for the subject of the Memoir, that constitutes one of the greatest charms of the Pandit’s style in the original Bengali “Life.” I have therefore contented myself with a careful verification of the literal accuracy of the English rendering, together with such minor alterations or deletions as seemed to be absolutely required by the occasional divergence of Eastern and Western thought.

Roper Lethbridge.