Excerpt from Studies in Saiva-Siddhanta European Sanskritist, unaware perhaps of the bearings of the expression, rendered the collocation Parama-hamsa' into 'great goose'. The strictly pedagogic purist may endeavour to justify such puerile versions on etymological grounds, but they stand Self-condemned as mal-interpretations reflecting anything but the sense and soul of the original. Such lapses into unwitting ignorance, need never be expected in any of the essays contained in the present collection, as our author is not only a sturdy and indefatigable researcher in Tamil philosophic literature illuminative Of the Agamic religion, but has also, in his quest after Truth, freely utilised the services of those Indigenous savam's, who represent the highest water-mark of Hindu traditional learning and spiritual associations at the present-day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.