The Bhagavadgîtâ, with the Sanatsugâtîya and the Anugîtâ — SBE Vol. 8 (trans. K. T. Telang, 1882)
The translator’s English as printed (K. T. Telang). The original-language text is not held; names are romanised as the translator printed them.
Coming now to the matter of the Sanatsugatiya, it appears to me, that we there see indications pointing in a general way to the same conclusion as that which we have here arrived at. There is, in the first place, a looseness and want of rigid system in the mode of handling the subject, similar to that which we have already observed upon as characterising the Bhagavadgita. There is no obvious bond of connexion joining together the various subjects discussed, nor are those subjects themselves treated after any very scientific or rigorous method. Again, if the fourth chapter is a genuine part of the Sanatsugatiya, we have an elaborate repetition in one part, of what has been said in another part of the work, with only a few variations in words, and
Coming now to the Sanatsujâtîya, I find that it too shows signs pointing in the same general direction as the conclusion we have just reached. For one thing, the way it handles its subject is loose and unsystematic, much like what we have already noted about the Bhagavadgita. No clear thread connects the various topics discussed, nor are those topics themselves treated in any very scientific or rigorous way. Again, if the fourth chapter is a genuine part of the Sanatsujâtîya, then one section of the work repeats at length what another section has already said, with only minor variations in wording, and