...to Hindu ideas, competes in authority with the Sanskrit work of Valmiki. A work of stern morality, it has been interwoven into the life, character and...population for more than three hundred years, and being read or heard by all classes alike, it has exerted an incalculable influence for good. " When...

...read or heard and appreciated alike jy every class of the Hindu community, whether high or low, •ich or poor, young or old." It has been interwoven into the life, iharacter, and speech of the Hindu population for more than three lundred years, and is not only loved...