"Véd." The Spiritual Father makes this answer, “I "have told you the principal part of the Véd, which "relates to God alone, and, indeed told you the Upani

shad, of which, austere devotion, control over the "senses, performance of religious rites, and the remain"ing parts of the Véd, as well as those sciences that 66 are derived from the Véds, are only the feet; and "whose altar and support is truth." He, who understands it as thus described, having relieved himself from sin, acquires eternal and unchangeable beatitude.

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TRANSLATION

OF THE

KUT H-OPUNISHUD

OF THE

UJOOR-VED,

ACCORDING TO THE GLOSS OF THE CELEBRATED

SUNKURACHARYU.

PREFACE.

IN

pursuance of my attempt to render a translation of the complete Vedant, or the principal parts of the Veds, into the current languages of this country, I had some time ago the satisfaction of publishing a translation of the Kut'h-opunishud of the Ujoor-ved into Bengalee; and of distributing copies of it as widely as my circumstances would allow, for the purpose of diffusing Hindoo Scriptural knowledge among the adherents of that religion. The present publication is intended to assist the European community in forming their opinion respecting Hindoo Theology, rather from the matter found in their doctrinal scriptures, than from the Poorans, moral tales, or any other modern works, or from the superstitious rites and habits daily encouraged and fostered by their self-interested leaders.

This work not only treats polytheism with contempt and disdain, but inculcates invariably the unity of God as the intellectual principle, the sole origin of individual intellect, entirely distinct from matter and its affections; and teaches also the mode of directing the mind to him.

A great body of my countrymen, possessed of good understandings, and not much fettered with prejudices, being perfectly satisfied with the truth of the doctrines contained in this and in other works, already laid by me before them, and of the gross errors of the peurile sys