Publisher's Synopsis
The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita from The Mahabharata The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. Being a Discourse Between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being Under the Form of Krishna by Anonymous Translated from the Sanskrit Text by Sir Edwin Arnold Mahabharata Hinduism - A sacred epic Sanskrit poem of India dealing in many episodes with the struggle between two rival families. The Song of the Bhagavan, often referred to as simply the Gita, is a 700-verse scripture that is part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. It is a sacred text of the Hindus.