 To enrich the worldview of Hindi speakers, Acharya Shukla translated Edwin Arnold's "The Light of Asia" into "Buddha Charit" (A biography of Gautam Buddha in Brij Bhasha verse) and German scholar Ernst Haeckel's famous work "The Riddles of Universe" into "Vishwa Prapanch" where he added his own thought-provoking preface by comparing its findings with Indian philosophical systems.These works signify that he did not restrict himself to be the foremost moderniser of the Hindi language, literature and thought.He was involved with scientific temper-building by translating and updating works of science and history.