Author: Kuiken, Gerard D.C.
Title: EASTERN THOUGHT AND THE GITA. The Original Gita and the Bhagavad Gita Compared
Description: Netherlands, Otam Books, 2012. 1st edition 606 pp. Pb. Top spine bumped. This study shows that the connection to the Original Gita can still be found, to a very high degree, in the 319 verses of the Bhagavad Gita. Next to the texts the book also contains an extensive Sanskrit-English dictionary containing all the Sanskrit words found in the 319 core verses in English alphabetical order. The multiple meanings of the Sanskrit words are given, and also their roots and parts of compounded words. Every reader, without knowledge of the Sanskrit language, can check every choice of any translator of the 319 core verses of the Bhagavad Gita by using this 240-page dictionary, constructed by consulting the various dictionaries of Sanskrit in English, German and French. The book ends with a bibliography and an index. very good condition

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