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' Persian , the court language of the east , he knew as his mother tongu ^; he had read and tasted the beauties of its poets , and often recited with enthusiasm the mystic strains of Hafiz , and the fine moral maxims of Sadi .. In the cool of the evening , while driving round Calcutta , under the mild rays of the moon , so ineffably beautiful in that ^ ciimate , how delightful to hear him repeat the verses of his ? a vo u rilenbards ! ' *^ — - ~ . _~__ __ - ~— - ~__^ - ^__^__ __—„__
His education , sound and liberal , applied to a mind of no common order , raised it above the vulgar-prejudices of his nation , and caused him at an early age to see the falsehood and absurdity of Hindu idolatry . At the-age of sixteen he composed a manuscript , calling it in question . This , together with his well-known opinions on that subject , caused a degree of coolness between him and his immediate relations , which induced him to travel into various countries , chiefly within the boundaries of Hindustan , but in some instances beyond „ He spent two or three years in Thibet * and often excited the anger of the worshippers of the Lama by his rejection of their doctrine , that this pretended dH'ty , tli € f- ' " icidiei , i ? e creature and victim of the priesthood , was the Creator and preserver of the world .
When he had reached the age of twenty , he was recalled by his father , received with great consideration , and restored to his favour . During the period of his alienation , "Ee '" exj ^ fieliced"ffiush kindness from the * female part of his family , ; and lately , at a distance of forty years , he dwelt upon it with deep interest , and this , he said , had made him always feel respect and gratitude towards the female sex , and doubtless contributed to that unvarying and refined courtesy which marked his intercourse with ladies in this country .
' His early renunciation of the superstition of his forefathers having , as he intimates , injured his worldly circumstances , for he was actually disinherited on that ground , he attached himself to official employment under the British government .. The little encouragement held out to natives"of India , in that capacity , more' especially in former times , is well known . The circumstance of his haying held a public situation at all , in fact , has often been mentioned by his enemies as a subject of reproach ; however he attained the Jiighest rank any native could
possibly hold in that branch of the service according to the existing laws . He was Dewan , or head native revenue officer of the district of Rungpopr ; and to the practical experience and knowledge of public business he acquired in that" office , the ™ ' pibli&' ^ f&iti ^ &bt ^ drfov ^ the most valuable information he has afforded to the British government for the airfelipration of his country ^ by the introduction of an improved revenue and judicial system in India . It Jed . also to the formation of a friendship between him and Mr . Dig by , ( a gentleman in the East India Company ' s Civil service , ) which had an important influepce : on his future life . They commenced a course of study together , in Oriental * Atheneeum ,
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322 RAJAH RAMMOHUN ROY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1833, page 322, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2625/page/2/
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