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 I.e., attention to work; melancholy=always desponding and wanting in energy.

2 The nature of the faculty of understanding; and courage is the firmness of that faculty.

8 Seep.115. Sankara takes these to mean the ‘ paths’ of action and knowledge, and Nîlakaṇṭha takes the next expression to mean that which is constant and that which is not constant—nitya, anitya.

4 Always co-existing with mental abstraction and supporting it.

5 Three of the aims of mankind, the highest being final emancipation. In the view of the Gita, piety, leading only to heaven, is of doubtful benefit.

6 Le. to the action for attaining them, in the belief that one is

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1 I.e., attention to work; melancholy=always desponding and wanting in energy.

2 The nature of the faculty of understanding; and courage is the firmness of that faculty.

8 See p. 115. Sankara takes these to mean the 'paths' of action and knowledge, and Nîlakaṇṭha takes the next expression to mean that which is constant and that which is not constant—nitya, anitya.

4 Always co-existing with mental abstraction and supporting it.

5 Three of the aims of mankind, the highest being final emancipation. In the Gita's view, piety that leads only to heaven is of doubtful benefit.

6 Le. to the action for attaining them, in the belief that one is

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