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About The Book
Generations of Hindus have turned to the Gita for the solution of their religious difficulties and its perennial popularity is due in large part to the fact that in the person of Krishna it presents the worshipper with a visible object of devotion while Arjuna represents the average good man. W.D.P. Hill s translation first published in 1928 is here reissued in a slightly abridged and more accessible form. The Sanskrit text is not reprinted but the English translation is accompanied by annotations an Introduction and an Index of Subjects.
About The Author
W. Douglas P. Hill who in 1928 gave us the most outstanding English rendering of the text was quite conscious of the difference between good and bad translations. He noted in his Bibliographical Notes that in the eighteen eighties and nineties The Bhagavad-Gita had become the playground of western pseudo-mystics. He did not appreciate the attempts that he grouped together as Theosophical Versions he referred to the greater part of other works on the Gita as comparatively worthless and he added: Hundreds of vernacular editions have found a home in the Indian Office Library and still continue to encumber its reluctant shelves.
Publisher : Winsome Books India;
New edition (1 December 2004)
Language : English
Paperback : 150 pages
ISBN-10 : 8188043001
ISBN-13 : 978-8188043002
Item Weight : 350 gm
Dimensions : 14 x 4 x 20 cm