"Like stranded wrecks the tide returning hoarse to sweep them from our sight." The public can therefore do much if their eyes could only be opened to importance of the subject.
But most of Hindus, of the present day, can neither use the books themselves nor will they allow foreigners to interfere with their sacred literature1. Our excellent Government is now laudably working in this direction.
Not a few remain, unless rescued from their fate. As the art of printing was unknown, a large proportion of Aryan literature has been washed into oblivion by the mighty wave of time. Aryans have cultivated almost every department of knowledge. Now it is well known that Aryan learning dates from the remotest antiquity. Though at loggerheads, most of Christian antiquarians take care not to assign to any Indian event dates earlier than what is permissible under their Biblical chronology. Antiquarians are at loggerheads in their conclusions touching the age of Aryan learning. History is puzzled in its attempt to reach the date of Aryan civilization.
Time was when Aryan wisdom shone resplendent, and, from its eminence, dazzled the eyes of distant nations - distant geographically and distant chronologically - illumined every corner of the intellectual horizon and served as a beacon, lighting the paths of erring travelers. It was the one fountain of knowledge from which issued streams to water distant lands of ignorance at every point of the compass, now yielding abundance of intellectual harvest. To it converged, as to a common focus, the eyes of foreigners from earliest period of the world's history. Bharata Varsha has long continued to be centre of attraction not only in respect of its wealth and civilization but in that of its intellectual advancement.
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