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The Bhagavad Gita (PDF)

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ISBN 979-10-989226-5-7

Translated from the Sanskrit, with an introduction, by Émile Senart. Paris, Bossard, Les Classiques de l’Orient, 1922 — text established by Éditions Pongh!.

The Bhagavad Gita is an episode in the Mahâbhârata. On the point of joining battle, Arjuna sees his teachers and his kinsmen facing him, and lets his bow fall. Krishna, who drives his chariot, answers him — and that answer fills eighteen chapters, from Arjuna’s anguish to deliverance.

Émile Senart, member of the Institut de France, here gives a restrained translation, made to be read rather than commented upon. He accompanies it with a note on the transcription of Sanskrit and an introduction in which he places the poem within the history of Hindu thought, and warns against the generalisations that distort its meaning.

The volume follows the order of the text: The anguish of Arjuna, Speculation, Action, Knowledge and action, Renunciation, Contemplation, The exposition of knowledge, Salvation in brahman, The royal mystery, The manifestations, The vision of the innumerable being, Bhakti, The world of the senses and the spirit, The distribution of the three gunas, The supreme spirit, Divine destinies and demonic destinies, The threefold faith, Renunciation and deliverance. It closes with an index of names.

This edition establishes the 1922 text from the digital facsimile of the Bossard edition, with no modernisation of the spelling or punctuation, and without borrowing anything from later reissues of this translation. It is the third title in the Éditions Pongh! collection, after Hermes Trismegistus and Caillet’s Mental Treatment.

The work

Émile Senart, La Bhagavadgîtâ. Éditions Pongh!, ISBN 979-10-989226-5-7.

The PDF format

The typeset page, as it would be printed: 131 pages, including the cover, with a clickable table of contents and an index of names. The layout does not shift from one device to another. To be read on a computer or tablet, or printed at home.

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