The Bhagavadgîtâ, with the Sanatsugâtîya and the Anugîtâ — SBE Vol. 8 (trans. K. T. Telang, 1882)

Now the first question which challenges investigation with reference to this work is, if we may so call it, the fundamental one—how much is properly included under the name? The question is not one quite easy of settlement, as our authorities upon it are not all reconcilable with one another. In the general list of contents of the Âsvamedha Parvan, which is given at the end of that Parvan in the edition printed at Bombay, we read that the first section is the Vyâsa Vakya, and the second the Sâmvartamâruttîya. With neither of these have we aught to do here. The list then goes on thus: ‘ Anugita, Vâsudevâgamana, Brâhmaṇa Gita, Guruśishyasamvâda, Uttankopâkhyâna,’ and so forth. With the later sections, again, we are not here concerned. Now let us compare this list with the list which may be obtained from the titles of the chapters in the body of the work itself. With the sixteenth chapter, then, of the Âsvamedha Parvan, begins what is here called the Anugita Parvan ; and that chapter and the three following chapters are described as the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth chapters respectively of the Anugita Parvan, which forms part of the Âsvamedha Parvan. The title of the twentieth chapter contains a small, but important, addition. It runs thus, ‘Such is the twentieth chapter of the Anugîtâ Parvan, forming part of the Âsvamedha Parvan—being the Brahma Gîtâ’ This form is continued down to the thirty-fourth chapter, only Brâhmaṇa