Instability in the Hindu Shastras : Lies and Big Feet. : 9789384281182 : 9384281182 : 20 Jun 2017 : It would be myopic if we refused to acknowledge that Max Mueller's (German philologist and Orientalist: 1823-1900) contribution to how the Hindu shastras were translated is essential to a nuanced understanding of how exactly were the editorial and textual processes involved in creating these texts. We can choose to disregard those parts of Muller's works that are a result of his personal biases which are symptomatic of Orientalist scholarship of the colonial period of the last two hundred years, but we cannot choose to undermine Mueller's mastery of Sanskrit. In The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda (Vol. 5) Swami-ji himself compares Max Mueller's efforts as being akin to Sayana's commentaries. We are therefore - coerced to also accept Max Mueller's translations of the Hindu shastras and self-reflexive commentaries on how he collated the different manuscripts of the Hindu shastras that