Bhagavad GIta

779 Pages·2009·17.69 MB·English

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The Bhagavad Gītā
W I N T H R O P S A R G E A N T
Foreword by Huston Smith
Editor’s Preface by Christopher Key Chapple

the bhagavad g¯ita¯
SUNY series in Cultural Perspectives
Antonio T. de Nicolás, editor
¯ ¯
THE BHAGAVAD GITA
Twenty-fi fth-Anniversary Edition
Translated by
WINTHROP SARGEANT
Edited and with a Preface by
CHRISTOPHER KEY CHAPPLE
Foreword by
HUSTON SMITH
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bhagavadg¯ıt¯a. English & Sanskrit.
The Bhagavad G¯ıt¯a / translated by Winthrop Sargeant ; edited and with a preface by
Christopher Key Chapple ; foreword by Huston Smith.—25th anniversary ed.
p. cm. — (Suny series in cultural perspectives)
Translated from Sanskrit.
Previously published: ©1984.
ISBN 978-1-4384-2841-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-4384-2842-0 (pbk. : alk.
paper)
I. Sargeant, Winthrop, 1903–1986. II. Chapple, Christopher Key, 1954– III. Title.
BL1138.62.E5 2009b
294.5’92404521—dc22 2009000540
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To my dear wife, Jane

CONTENTS
Foreword
by Huston Smith ix
Editor’s Preface
with a User’s Guide for the Word-by-Word
Analysis of the Bhagavad G¯ıta¯ xix
Translator’s Preface 1
The Language of the Bhagavad G¯ıta¯ 3
The Setting of the Bhagavad G¯ıta¯ 9
List of Abbreviations Used in the Vocabularies 35
Epithets Used in the Bhagavad G¯ıta¯ 37