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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
It will be found that in many places in this work
the translation is free and many Sanskrit words
have been left untranslated. Of course in a work
like this teeming with stories, a literal translation
will but mar the original. There are two reasons
which induced me to retain the Sanskrit words
themselves in this work. Some of the terms used
herein have no proper English equivalents and
hence do require periphrastic expressions to
express rightly the underlying ideas. Many of the
terms have become commonly known to readers of
Vedantic literature- To understand this work fully,
its predecessor „Vasudeva-Manana’ or the
meditations of Vasudeva a compendium of
Advaita philosophy published by us will be of
great help. One new feature of the present
translation is the summary given for every chapter
or story.
In this effort of mine, I was greatly assisted by my
late lamented co-worker R. Sundareswara Sastrial.
My thanks are especially due to Mr. Bertram
Keightley, M. A, the General Secretary of the
Indian Section T. S. for the great help he rendered
me in revising my MSS.; as also to Messrs, N.
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