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The Song Celestial

or Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata)

By Vyāsa

First written c. 200 BCE – 200 CE

About this book

Edwin Arnold’s translation of the Bhagavad Gītā into English blank verse, with lyrical measures where the Sanskrit changes metre. It was the Gītā most English readers knew for half a century; Gandhi first read the poem in it.

The edition

Title
The Song Celestial: or Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata)
Translated by
Edwin Arnold
Publisher
Trübner & Co., London
Year
1885

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Period

Axial Age800 BCE to 200 BCE

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