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The Song Celestial (Bhagavad-Gîtâ)

Traditionally attributed to Vyasa · translated by Sir Edwin Arnold (1885)

Krishna and Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, in Arnold's verse rendering.

Contents

  1. Chapter 1: The Distress Of Arjuna8 stanzas
  2. Chapter 2: The Book Of Doctrines19 stanzas
  3. Chapter 3: Virtue In Work6 stanzas
  4. Chapter 4: The Religion Of Knowledge5 stanzas
  5. Chapter 5: Religion Of Renouncing Works5 stanzas
  6. Chapter 6: Religion By Self-restraint12 stanzas
  7. Chapter 7: Religion By Discernment10 stanzas
  8. Chapter 8: Religion By Service Of The Supreme11 stanzas
  9. Chapter 9: Religion By The Kingly Knowledge And The Kingly Mystery17 stanzas
  10. Chapter 10: Religion By The Heavenly Perfections3 stanzas
  11. Chapter 11: The Manifesting Of The One And Manifold49 stanzas
  12. Chapter 12: Religion Of Faith4 stanzas
  13. Chapter 13: Religion By Separation Of Matter And Spirit11 stanzas
  14. Chapter 14: Religion By Separation From The Qualities11 stanzas
  15. Chapter 15: Religion By Attaining The Supreme15 stanzas
  16. Chapter 16: The Separateness Of The Divine And Undivine7 stanzas
  17. Chapter 17: Religion By The Threefold Faith13 stanzas
  18. Chapter 18: Religion By Deliverance And Renunciation31 stanzas

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Edition and rights

The Song Celestial; or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata), Trübner & Co., London, 1885

Translation published 1885; translator Sir Edwin Arnold died 1904. Public domain worldwide (life+70) and in the US (published before 1929).

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2388 Text taken from Project Gutenberg with the PG header, footer and licence removed, as PG's terms allow for public-domain works. Normalisation: footnote markers [FN#n] removed: 37 (Arnold's endnotes dropped); PG typo marker [FN#l6] (for FN 16) also removed; row of omission dots (Arnold's) appended to previous stanza 8.10, not a unit of its own; PG over-long line rewrapped: 'same' rejoined to previous line in 10.1; PG over-long line rewrapped: 'psalms,' rejoined to previous line in 11.46; row of omission dots (Arnold's) appended to previous stanza 13.2, not a unit of its own; row of omission dots (Arnold's) appended to previous stanza 16.7, not a unit of its own; Stanza = Arnold's blank-line-separated verse paragraph as printed; speaker labels kept as the first line of text and copied into 'speaker'; Chapter titles from Arnold's CONTENTS list (as printed, capitals); the 'HERE ENDETH ...' colophon is kept in section.colophon, not as a unit.

Changes made in transcription (9)
  • footnote markers [FN#n] removed: 37 (Arnold's endnotes dropped)
  • PG typo marker [FN#l6] (for FN 16) also removed
  • row of omission dots (Arnold's) appended to previous stanza 8.10, not a unit of its own
  • PG over-long line rewrapped: 'same' rejoined to previous line in 10.1
  • PG over-long line rewrapped: 'psalms,' rejoined to previous line in 11.46
  • row of omission dots (Arnold's) appended to previous stanza 13.2, not a unit of its own
  • row of omission dots (Arnold's) appended to previous stanza 16.7, not a unit of its own
  • Stanza = Arnold's blank-line-separated verse paragraph as printed; speaker labels kept as the first line of text and copied into 'speaker'
  • Chapter titles from Arnold's CONTENTS list (as printed, capitals); the 'HERE ENDETH ...' colophon is kept in section.colophon, not as a unit

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