Bhagavad-Gítá or the sacred lay ; a colloquy between Krishna and Arjuna on divine matters : an episode from the Mahabharata

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BHAGAVAD-GITA; ; R, DISCOURSES ON DIVINE MATTERS of KRISHNA and ARJUNA a philosophical Poem. The Sanskrit TENT with a VocaBurnary. र = iG : Also, a New TDiranstation in Prose, of the

BHAGAVAD-GITA;. Wit yery copious Critical, Philosophical, and Explanatory Notes; and Introductory Chapters on the Hinda System of Philosophy, a Critical Examination of the Book, and an Index of Proper Names, by J. COCKBURN THOMSON, Member of the Asiatic Society of France.

The QUARTERLY REyIEW in an article on ‘Sanscrit Poetry,’ attribnted to Dean Milman, say: “The Bhagavad-Gita, or the Divine Song, an episode in the form of a dialogue between the god Krishna and the hero Avjuna;-sives a full and most curious exposition of the half-niythologieal, half- 1 of the Brahmins. . ., It reads like a noble fragment of Empedocles or Lucretius. . . . In point ef poetical conception, there is something singmarly striking and magnificent in the iutroduction of this solemn discussion on the nature of the godheéad and the destiny of man, in the midst of the fury and trmult of the civil war in which it occurs. - . . On the whole, the Bhagavad-Gita is certainly one of the most curious, and the most characteristic works, Which we have received from the East,