A VINDICATION OF THE INCARNATION OF THE DEITY, AS THE COMMON BASIS OF HINDOOISM AND CHRISTIANITY, AGAINST THE SCHISMATIC ATTACKS OF R. TYTLER, ESQ. M. D. "An enquiry Surgeon in the Hon. East India Company's Service, Author of into the Origin and Principles of Budaic Sabism," and of Substance of a Discourse in Vindication of the Divinity of our Lord," and also, Member of the Asiatic Society. "The BY RAM DOSS. CALCUTTA: Printed by S. Smith and Co., Hurkaru Press. 1823. DEDICATION TO ALL BELIEVERS IN THE INCARNATION OF THE DEITY. FELLOW-BELIEVERS, The following Correspondence between the renowned Dr. R. Tytler and myself was partly given to the world through the medium of the BENGAL HURKARU; but as the Editor of that Paper refused to admit some of my letters into its pages, and those published were widely separated from each other by being mixed up with various extraneous matters, I have deemed it advisable to have the whole collected together and presented at one view, for general edification. My object in addressing Dr. Tytler (as will be seen from a perusal of the following pages,) was, that all Believers in the Manifestation of God in the flesh, whether Hindoo or Christian, might unite in support of our Common Cause, and cordially co-operate in our endeavours to check the alarming growth of the Unitarian heresy but unfortunately my hopes were entirely disappointed, as Dr. Tytler not only refused to repair the breach, I conceived his writings calculated to make, but to my great surprise and regret, in return for my friendly offers of assistance, he applied to me and to my religion the most opprobrious abuse, and treated me as if my Faith were inimical to the tenets of his Creed. I am, your friend and fellow-believer, Calcutta, June 3, 1823. RAM DOSS. • Ram Doss is the name assumed by Ram Mohun Roy in many of his satirical writings. -ED. A VINDICATION OF THE INCARNATION OF THE DEITY, &c. INTRODUCTION. This Correspondence was occasioned by a passage in a letter of Dr. Tytler's, published in the BENGAL HURKARU of the 30th of May 1823, directed against Rammohun Roy, a person who, as is well known, is strongly reprobated by the zealous, both among Hindoos and Christians, for his daring impiety in rejecting the doctrine of Divine Incarnations. But the Doctor while censuring this stubborn Heretic, most unwarrantably introduced contemptuous allusions to the Hindoo Deities, as will be seen from the passage referred to which is here subjoined :— Extract from the Hurkaru of May 3rd, 1823. He (Rammohun Roy) thus proceeds in the same epistle. "Whether you be a faithful believer in the Divinity of the Holy Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, or of any other mortal man; or whether a Hindu declares himself a faithful believer in the Divinity of his Holy Thakoor Trata RAM, or MUNOOI feel equally indifferent about these notions." Here I pause, for the purpose of asking the candid Reader what would have been said, if, at the time Rammohun Roy continued in his belief of Shiba, Vishnu and Gunesa, I had personally addressed a letter to him, replete with vituperation of him and his opinions? Would it not have been asserted, and very justly, that I was attacking him, and his gods, and wounding the religious feelings of a Hindu? Yet this Unitarian, as he now professes himself, thinks proper to leave the subject of discussion, namely a proposal to hold a "Religious conference," and tells me flatly that |