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.
* Blessed with children, &c. Srîdhara takes it to mean, ‘ one who has done all he need do,’ and Râmânuga ‘ sufficient in himself’ ? Le. get higher renown for sacrifices than others.
* That is, because of indulgence in vanity, &c. Vanity = believing oneself to have virtues which one has not; arrogance= proud disdain of others.
* There is trouble to oneself in sacrifices and to the animals killed for them.
5 Le: of God.
* The commentators render the original here by ‘the paths of life and death,’ or ‘ path to hell.’
* Blessed with children, &c. Srîdhara takes it to mean 'one who has done all he need do,' and Râmânuja 'sufficient in himself.' That is, get higher renown for sacrifices than others.
* That is, because of indulgence in vanity, &c. Vanity = believing oneself to have virtues which one has not; arrogance = proud disdain of others.
* Sacrifices cause suffering to oneself and to the animals killed in them.
5 Le: of God.
* The commentators render the original here as 'the paths of life and death,' or 'path to hell.'