Bhagavad-Gita The Song Celestial: A Classic English Rendering of the Hindu Sacred Text
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Sprache:Englisch
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
24.04.2011
Verlag
Wilder PublicationsSeitenzahl
90
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/0,6 cm
Gewicht
145 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-61720-337-4
Bhagavad-Gita is Sir Edwin Arnold's influential English rendering of one of the central sacred texts of Hinduism and one of the great spiritual classics of world literature. Presented in elevated poetic prose, Arnold's version brings the dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna to English-speaking readers as a work of devotion, philosophy, moral instruction, and spiritual insight. On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Arjuna confronts duty, grief, violence, conscience, and the meaning of right action, while Krishna reveals a vision of the soul, divine reality, disciplined action, devotion, and liberation. First published in 1885 as The Song Celestial, Arnold's translation helped introduce the Bhagavad-Gita to a broad Western audience and became one of the most widely read nineteenth-century English versions of the text. Its literary style reflects the Victorian encounter with Indian scripture, offering a reverent and accessible interpretation of a work that has shaped Hindu philosophy, yoga, devotional thought, and comparative religion for centuries. For readers of Hindu sacred writings, Eastern philosophy, comparative religion, yoga, spiritual classics, and world literature, Arnold's Bhagavad-Gita remains historically important and deeply readable. It stands both as a presentation of the Gita's enduring teachings and as a significant document in the transmission of Indian religious and philosophical thought to the modern English-speaking world.
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