APPENDIX A. 
ON THE PAPER ON “KRISHNA.” 
As regards Non-Christian Religious Systems, vol. xviii. 
contains a paper, upon Buddhism, in which the talented 
author gives the results both of his own studies during 
a quarter of a century in India, and of the most careful 
researches yet made by others, into the history of the times 
when Buddhism took its rise; and the position taken up in 
that paper is supported by several whose studies enable them 
to claim a right to speak upon the subject. 
The present volume contains a paper on Krishna, by the 
same author, followed by a discussion, in which some of the 
best known authorities upon the subject give their opinions. 
As it adds to the completeness with which the subject has 
been brought before the Members, it seems not undesirable 
to add, as an appendix to this volume, the opinion of 
one of the leading authorities in England, upon the subject 
of the Sacred Books of the Hast. 
Remarks By Sir Monrer Monier-Wittiams, K.C.S.I. 
(Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University). 
“ Unusual facilities for the study of non-Christian religious systems 
are now at our disposal ; for the University of Oxford has this year, 
1887, completed the publication of about thirty stately volumes of the 
so-called Sacred Books of the East, comprising the Veda, the Zend- 
Avesta of the Zoroastrians, the Confucian Texts, the Buddhist 
Tripitaka, and the Muhammadan Kuran,—all translated by well- 
known translators. Our missionaries are already convinced of the 
necessity of studying these works, and of making themselves con- 
versant with the false creeds they have to fight. How could an 
army of invaders have any chance of success in an enemy’s country 
without a knowledge of the position of its fortress, and without 
knowing how to turn the batteries they may capture against the foe ? 
Instead of dwelling on so manifest a duty, I venture a few words of 
warning as to the subtle danger that lurks bencath the duty. 
“In my youth I had been accustomed to hear all non-Christian 
