The Indian Review May 1910 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of all Topics of Interest

Members of the family were strong 'supporters M the Scottish Reformation during the 16th century and were the reputed authors of the "Dude and Godlie Ballads " and the " Complaynt of Scotland;" which exercised an important inflUence on the side of the reforers.. [...] (3) The difficulty and tediousness amouning almost to unintelligibility of the processes prescribed for the construction of en Indian Alnianan It is no donnt the case that the beet and the most learnodkaponents of the system of the Indian Calendar have not succeeded irt'opening up the thorny hedge which has boon grotaing for centuries as in the fairy tale armind the residence of this Sleepi [...] The rule is merely to add three degrees to the eideIt is a remarkable coincidence for which however no mathematical mason can be assigned time the length of the Solar year aceordiug la the Arya Biddhanta contains in the decimal places absolutely the same figures asare contained in the cycle of revlution of the vernal equinox the length of the year according to the Argo Siddhanta being [...] The opposition led by a few fanatics of one of the provincial Sanatana Sabhas expressed dismay not at the subject having been in all probability thrust in according to them by the heretics of the Arya Samaj but at the fact of some amongst the most prominent leaders of the Sanatana Dh anna having consented to the prgramme. [...] tHE author of this work has rendered good service to the readers of the Bible by the t analysis he has made of the Old and New Testaments and by the attention he has drawn to the fact that if the books of the Bible were read in the historical order pointed out by him the whole of the religious and moral thought pervading it would appear to be the result of one continuous evolution from the most