For years, this version of the Bhagavad Gītā has allowed all people with a full of life curiosity during this religious vintage to come back into direct touch with the richness and resonance of the unique textual content. Winthrop Sargeant’s interlinear variation presents a word-for-word English translation besides the devanagari characters and the transliterated Sanskrit. targeted grammatical remark and page-by-page vocabularies are incorporated, and a whole translation of every part is outlined on the backside of every web page, permitting readers to show the pages and take pleasure in the paintings in Sargeant’s translation besides. Discussions of the language and surroundings of the Gītā are supplied and, during this re-creation, editor Christopher Key Chapple deals tips on tips to get the main out of this interlinear variation. lengthy a favourite of religious seekers and students, academics and scholars, and fans of worldwide literature, Sargeant’s variation endures as a very good source for twenty-first-century readers.

“Mr. Sargeant has to be congratulated on his ‘labor of love.’ one of many masterpieces of Indian—and human—religious genius has been made available in all its greatest and profound complexity.” — Mircea Eliade

“Winthrop Sargeant furnishes not just a masterly translation and concisely informative introductions and notes, but additionally a transliteration of the unique textual content. This allows for the newcomer to understand and luxuriate in the sound of the unique, which in India has regularly been given huge, immense and nearly magical importance.” — the recent Yorker

“If you don’t be aware of Sanskrit yet you continue to are looking to come to grips with the Gītā in its unique language, then this can be the model for you.” — Yoga Journal

“There is not any different Sanskrit textual content to be had to the English-language reader that could evaluate to this one in comprehensiveness of linguistic material.” — Philosophy East and West