"The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is the root of their religion, and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last 3000 years."
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Max Muller writing about his translation of the Rigveda. Letter to his wife Georgina, Dec 1866, published in The Life and Letters of Right Honorable Friedrich Max Müller (1902) edited by Georgina Müller in Shourie, Arun (1994). Missionaries in India: Continuities, changes, dilemmas. New Delhi : Rupa & Co, 1994
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