TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENTS
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PREFACE Page vii
- Introduction .. 5
PART I—Religious
Riddle No. 1 The Difficulty of Knowing why one is a 13 Hindu.
Riddle No. 2 The Origin of the Vedas—The Brahminic Explanation or an exercise in the art of circumlocution.
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Riddle No. 3 The Testimony of other Shastras on the 19 origin of the Vedas.
Riddle No. 4 Why suddenly the Brahmins declare the Ve- 25 das to be infallible and not to be questioned?
Riddle No. 5 Why did the Brahmins go further and declare that the Vedas are neither made by man nor by God ?
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Riddle No. 6 The Contents of the Vedas: Have they any 37 moral or spiritual value?
Riddle No. 7 The turn of the tide Or How did the Brahmins declare the Vedas to be lower than the lowest of their Shastras?
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Riddle No. 8 How the Upanishads declared War on the 62 Vedas ?
Riddle No. 9 How the Upanishads came to be made sub- 67 ordinate to the Vedas?
Riddle No. 10 Why did the Brahmins make the Hindu 71 Gods fight against one another?
Riddle No. 11 Why did the Brahmins make the Hindu 80 Gods suffer to rise and fall?
Riddle No. 12 Why did the Brahmins dethrone the Gods 99 and enthrone the Goddesses?