The Bhagavad Gita: Twenty-fifth Anniversary EditionChristopher Key Chapple For years, this edition of the Bhagavad Gita has allowed all those with a lively interest in this spiritual classic to come into direct contact with the richness and resonance of the original text. Winthrop Sargeant s interlinear edition provides a word-for-word English translation along with the devana?gari? characters and the transliterated Sanskrit. Detailed grammatical commentary and page-by-page vocabularies are included, and a complete translation of each section is printed at the bottom of each page, allowing readers to turn the pages and appreciate the work in Sargeant s translation as well. Discussions of the language and setting of the Gi?ta? are provided and, in this new edition, editor Christopher Key Chapple offers guidance on how to get the most out of this interlinear edition. Long a favorite of spiritual seekers and scholars, teachers and students, and lovers of world literature, Sargeant s edition endures as a great resource for twenty-first-century readers. |
Contents
Translators Preface | 1 |
The Language of the Bhagavad Gita | 3 |
The Setting of the Bhagavad Gita | 9 |
List of Abbreviations used in the Vocabularies | 35 |
Epithets Nicknames Used in the Bhagavad Gita | 37 |
Common terms and phrases
2nd sg 3rd pl 3rd sg abandoned aham nom Arjuna spoke attachment attain austerity battle Bhagavad Gita Bharata Bhisma Blessed Lord spoke body born Brahman BV cpd cause chariot desire devoted Dhrtarastra divine Draupadi Drona Drupada dual Duryodhana epithet of Arjuna eternal evil field fight fire firm first fixed gerund gods gunas Hastinapura highest idam imperative act imperishable indic indie infinitive inst Jvid karma Karna Kauravas KD cpd King knower knowledge Krishna Kunti material nature mdm ace mind one’s Pandava Pandava Princes Pandu participle pass passive perfect act prakrti Prtha rajas rajasic Ramanuja rhythmic filler sacrifice Sahadeva Sanskrit sattva senses Sons of Pandu stanza steadfast tamas tamasic tathd thee thou shalt thought TP cpd tvam ucyate unmanifest uvdca 3rd sg Vedas Vedic warrior wisdom worship Yoga yogin Yudhisthira