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pleafure to find, that the learned Hindus, encouraged 

 by the mildnefs of our government and manners, are at 

 lead as eager to communicate their knowledge of all 

 kinds as we can be to receive it. Since Europeans 

 are indebted to the Dutch for almoft all they know of 

 Arabick, and to the French for all they know of Chi- 

 nefe, let them now receive from our nation the firft 

 accurate knowledge of Sanfcrit, and of the valuable 

 works compofed in it. But, if they wifli to form a 

 corretl idea of Indian religion and literature, let them 

 begin with forgetting all that has been written on the 

 fubjecl, by ancients or moderns, before the publication 

 of the Gita. 



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