Guest guest Posted June 13, 2001 Report Share Posted June 13, 2001 INDOLOGY, suvidya@o... wrote: > > Dr. Ganesan wrote : > > "It never ceased to amaze me that Mahatma Gandhi, > in his quest for the alleviation of caste-caused > problems (1964 et passim), kept insisting that > the Bhagavadgiitaa contained caste-denying or > caste-rejecting teachings. Now Gandhi did not > read Sanskrit, his first acquaintance with that > text was Annie Besant's rendition in the Theosophical > Society edition (1923)........" > It was Aghehananda Bharati's words. > [incidentally, he also "studied Tamil, an language that > fascinated him, though he never came to know it well. He > would later say that he made "desperate efforts" to learn > the language and always failed." ] > > -Arun Gupta TillaiyADi VaLLiyammai in South Africa taught him to sign in Tamil. Regards, N. Ganesan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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