Back Cover Blurb
- Love, light and life
- The eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad Gita (c. 500 BC), the glory of Sanskrit literature, encompass the whole spiritual struggle of a human soul, and the three central themes of this immortal poem arise from the symphonic vision of God in all things and of all things in God.
- ‘The task of truly translating such a work is indeed formidable. To hope for success in it the translator must at least possess three qualities. He must be an artist in words as well as a Sanskrit scholar, and above all, perhaps, he must be deeply sympathetic with the spirit of the original. Mr Mascaro has succeeded so well because he possesses all these qualifications’
→ The Times Literary Supplement
- The cover shows Krishna arranging Radha's tresses, Kangra school, in the National Museum, New Delhi
Book Comment
- Translation with an Introduction by Juan Mascaro.
- Penguin Classics, 1962.
- From the placing of a bookmark, I must have read half of this book sometime in the previous century, but I have no memory of so doing.
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