THE SONG CELESTIAL or Bhagavad-Gita(from the Mahabharata). Being a Discourse between Arjuna, Prince of India, And The Supreme Being Under the Form of Krishna. Translated from the Sanskrit Text by Edwin Arnold, M.A. Second Edition.

BHAGAVAD GITA. ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN, translated by.

Published by Trubner and Co., Ludgate Hill., London, 1885

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8vo. 7.75 x 5.25 inches. xiv + 573 pp. + [8] pp. publisher's advertisements. Bound in original mustard cloth, gilt. Rough cut edges. Extremities worn, including corners and head and tail of spine, which is darkened. and a little stained; otherwise a very good copy. A verse translation from the Sanskrit of the great Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, by Edwin Arnold !832-1904). In India from 1856, he served as principal of the Deccan College, Poona before returning to England to become a journalist on the Daily Telegraph (editor 1873-88). His best known work was The Light of Asia (1879), an epic poem relating the life of Prince Gautama, founder of Buddhism. A second edition published in 1885, the same year as the first. THEOLOGY/HISTORY INDIA THEOLOGY- NON-CHRISTIAN ASIA POETRY 19TH CENTURY THEOLOGY/HISTORY.

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• Title: THE SONG CELESTIAL or Bhagavad-Gita(from the Mahabharata). Being a Discourse between Arjuna, Prince of India, And The Supreme Being Under the Form of Krishna. Translated from the Sanskrit Text by Edwin Arnold, M.A. Second Edition.
• Publisher: Trubner and Co., Ludgate Hill., London
• Publication Date: 1885
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good