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

Open to allEdited by F. Max Müller; translated by Müller, Legge, Bühler, West, Darmesteter, Palmer, Telang, Thibaut, Jolly, Rhys Davids, Oldenberg, Jacobi, Bloomfield and others2259 segments · 127 pp
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The translator’s English as printed (K. T. Telang). The original-language text is not held; names are romanised as the translator printed them.

1 Nîlakaṇṭha says the original means household effects; Arguna Misra says wealth, and adds, the mind is fixed on it from fear of others finding it out.

2 Cf. Sanatsugatiya, p. 152. Here, however, the sense is the ordinary one. $ Le. all nature, that from which the universe is developed.

* Cf. Kâshâ, pp. 117-130. See Santi Parvan (Moksha) CCXL, 16.

5 Cf. Gita, p. 103. The stanza occurs often in the Bharata. This, says Arguna Misra, answers the question ‘how the soul carries the body.’ The soul can do that as it is all-pervading. $ The individual soul, which has acquired true knowledge, perceives the self to be distinct from the body. See p. 249 supra.

7 Je. at the false notions which he entertained. Nîlakaṇṭha says, ‘smile, i.e. amazement that he should have been deceived by the mirage-like course of worldly life.’ ² I.e. final emancipation and assimilation with the supreme ; ‘depending upon it thus’=taking refuge with the Brahman in the way above stated.

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1 Nîlakaṇṭha says the original means household effects; Arjuna Misra says wealth, and adds that the mind is fixed on it out of fear of others discovering it.

2 Cf. Sanatsujâtîya, p. 152. Here, however, the sense is the ordinary one. $ I.e. all nature, that from which the universe is developed.

* Cf. Kâshâ, pp. 117-130. See Santi Parvan (Moksha) CCXL, 16.

5 Cf. Gita, p. 103. The stanza occurs often in the Bharata. This, says Arjuna Misra, answers the question of how the soul carries the body. The soul can do that because it is all-pervading. § The individual soul, which has acquired true knowledge, perceives the self to be distinct from the body. See p. 249 supra.

7 Je. at the false notions which he had held. Nîlakaṇṭha says, 'smile, i.e. amazement that he should have been taken in by the mirage-like course of worldly life.' ² I.e. final emancipation and assimilation with the supreme; 'depending upon it thus' = taking refuge with the Brahman in the way described above.

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