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The Bhagavad-Gita
The Bhagavad-Gita
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Annonymous. The Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna's Counsel in Time of War Bantam Dell, reissue, 2004. 162 pp. Paperback.
A new verse translation by Sanskrit scholar Barbara Stoler Miller, includes an Afterword on Thoreau's response to the Gita. This book has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the 1st century A.D. This book has inspired thinkers from Gandhi and Emerson to T.S. Elliot and Thomas Merton. Thoreau even took a copy of the Gita to Walden Pond with him.
Bhagavadgita
Bhagavadgita
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Annonymous. Bhagavadgita (Thrift Edition). DOver, 1993. 97 pp. Paperback.
An unabridged republication of Sir Edwin Arnold's translation of the Gita from the late 19th Century. New notes and footnotes have been added. Thoreau had a copy of the Gita with him at Walden Pond, and the book has inspired thinkers from Emerson and Ghandi to T.S. Elliot and Thomas Merton.