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.

Prior in time to Bava is the Indian Shakespeare, Kalidasa, as he is referred to in Bâṇabhaṭṭa’s Harshafarita * and also in a copperplate inscription of the early part of the seventh century, as a poet who had then already acquired a high reputation ®. Unfortunately, it is not yet possible to fix exactly the date at which Kâlidâsa flourished. Still,

* Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. VIII, p. 250; and see, too, Indian Antiquary, vol. vi, p- 61 (Dr. Bühler). ? Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xiv, p. 16 seq. $ P. 182 (Taranatha’s ed.) * See F. E. Hall’s Vasavadattâ, p- 14 note,

* See Indian Antiquary, vol. v, p. 70,

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Prior in time to Bava is the Indian Shakespeare, Kalidasa, as he is referred to in Bâṇabhaṭṭa's Harshafarita * and also in a copperplate inscription of the early part of the seventh century, as a poet who had by then already acquired a high reputation ®. Unfortunately, it is not yet possible to fix exactly the date at which Kâlidâsa flourished. Still,

* Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. VIII, p. 250; and see, too, Indian Antiquary, vol. vi, p. 61 (Dr. Bühler). ² Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xiv, p. 16 seq. ³ P. 182 (Taranatha's ed.) ⁴ See F. E. Hall's Vasavadattâ, p. 14 note.

* See Indian Antiquary, vol. v, p. 70,

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