Hindu Philosophy
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Hindu Philosophy

Bhagavad Gita or, The Sacred Lay

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Hindu Philosophy

Bhagavad Gita or, The Sacred Lay

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First Published in 2000.This is Volume VII of fourteen of a series on India- its language and literature. The Bhagavad Gita is a Sanskrit philosophical poem, written in the usual verse form of the Hindu epic poems, and is an episode in the sixth book, or Bhlshma Parvan, of the Mahabharata, an epic poem devoted mainly to the deeds of the rival princes, who, though descended from a common ancestor, Kuru, fought as Kauravas and Pandavas for the kingdom of which Hastinapura was the capital

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780415245203
eBook ISBN
9781136390081
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Ethnic Studies
Index
Social Sciences

INDEX

A

Āchārya, tutor, 20, n.
Achyuta, epithet of Kį¹›ishį¹‡a, 29.
Action, what, 61.
Adhibhuta, title of Brahma, 94 n.
Adhidaiva, title of Brahma, 3, 94 n.
Adhiyajna, title of Brahma, 4, 94 0.,99.
Adhyātman, the Supreme Spirit, 3,56,94, 115, 137.
Aditya, name of the sun, 58,112,120.
Adyayana, meaning of, 127 n.
Adwaita, non-dualism, 6.
Agni, god of fire, 126.
Ahankara, self - consciousness, 12,13, 14, 56.
Ahura, Zend form of Asura, 103 n.
Airavata, the elephant of Indra, 114,193
Ajyam, what, 104 n.
Ākāsa, the ether, 12, 102.
Akshara, the Indivisible, 4.
Alexandria, a city where Hindū swere met, 195.
All-sustainer, title of Brahma, 95.
Alms, when good or bad, 164.
Ambrosial, remains of sacrifices, 63.
Amrita, nectar of the gods, 133 n.,135, 147
Anala, one of the Vasus, 113 n.
Ananda, referred to, 50 n., 61 n., 94 n., 100, 108, 149, 153, 157.
Ananta, the serpent on which Vishnurests, 115, 124.
Anila, one of the Vasus, 113 n.
Anupeksha, meaning of, 134.
Apa, one of the Vasus, 113 n.
Apāna, downward breath, 15.
Arjuna, son of Indra, the thirdPāį¹‡įøu prince, I, 2, 20.
Ark, the ship in which Manu was saved during the deluge, 58 n.
Aryama, chief of the Pitris (fathers),115.
Asakta, meaning of, 55.
Asannyasta-sankalpa, meaning of, 82.
Asat, what, 137 n., 165.
Asita, a rishi, 111.
Asuras, referred to, 17 n., 88, 103 n.,155, 162.
Aswathāman, one of the Pāį¹‡įøu chiefs, 21.
Aswattha, the sacred fig-tree, 114,150.
Aswins, the twin, what, 120 n.
Ātatāyinas, what, 30.
Atharva- Veda, quoted, 193 n. Ātmabodha, quoted, 8, 14 n. Ātman, the soul, 13.
Atyartham, meaning of, 91.
Aushadha, meaning of, 104 n.
Avarta, Avartin, meaning of, 100.
Avaśa, meaning of, 100.
Avyakta, the Unmanifested, 7, 12, 89, 97...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. I. The Despondency of Arjuna
  7. II. The Sankhya-Yoga (Doctrine)
  8. III. Devotion by Work
  9. IV. The Devotion of Knowledge
  10. V. Devotion by Renouncing Works
  11. VI. Devotion By Self-Restraint
  12. VII. Devotion Through Spiritual Discernment
  13. VIII. Devotion to the Supreme Eternal Brahma
  14. IX. Devotion Through the Royal Knowledge and the Royal Mystery
  15. X. Devotion by the Divine Perfections
  16. XI. The Manifestation of the Universal Form
  17. XII. The Devotion of Worship
  18. XIII. Devotion by the Separation of Matter and Spirit
  19. XIV. Devotion by Separation from the Three Modes
  20. XV. Devotion in Attaining to the highest Being
  21. XVI. Devotion with Regard to the Separate State of Gods and Asuras
  22. XVII. Devotion by the Threefold Kinds of Faith
  23. XVIII. Devotion in Deliverance and Renunciation
  24. Appendix.
  25. Index