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Any collection strong in Indian spirituality needs this in-depth coverage.” * Midwest Book Review, November 2012 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003eForeword by Swami Krishnananda \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePreface: The Historical Krishna \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Krishna the Supreme Incarnation \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart One \u003cbr\u003eBala-Lila--The Play of the Child\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e The Advent \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e The Birth of the Unborn \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e3\u003c\/b\u003e The Divine Infant \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e4\u003c\/b\u003e The Butter Thief \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e5\u003c\/b\u003e Bondage of the Boundless \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e6\u003c\/b\u003e Brahma Bemused \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e7\u003c\/b\u003e The Enchanting Flute \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e8\u003c\/b\u003e Krishna Lifts the Mountain \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e9\u003c\/b\u003e The Divine Lover \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e10\u003c\/b\u003e The Lord of Vraja \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two \u003cbr\u003eRaja-Lila--The Royal Game\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e11\u003c\/b\u003e The Prophecy Fulfilled \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e12\u003c\/b\u003e Uddhava at Gokula \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e13\u003c\/b\u003e Lord of Dwaraka \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e14\u003c\/b\u003e Abduction of Rukmini \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e15\u003c\/b\u003e The Cursed Gem \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e16\u003c\/b\u003e The Pandavas \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e17\u003c\/b\u003e The Divine Husband \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e18\u003c\/b\u003e The Sons of Krishna \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e19\u003c\/b\u003e The Divine Ruler \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e20\u003c\/b\u003e The Rajasuya Sacrifice \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three \u003cbr\u003eUttama-Lila--The Game Supreme\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e21\u003c\/b\u003e The Gambling Match \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e22\u003c\/b\u003e The Exile \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e23\u003c\/b\u003e The Lord as Ambassador \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e24\u003c\/b\u003e Declaration of War \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e25\u003c\/b\u003e Srimad Bhagavad Gita \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e26\u003c\/b\u003e The Mahabharata War \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e27\u003c\/b\u003e The End of the War \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e28\u003c\/b\u003e The Advice of Bhishma \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e29\u003c\/b\u003e The Story of Sudama \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e30\u003c\/b\u003e Dharma Rules Supreme \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e31\u003c\/b\u003e The Curse of the Sages \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e32\u003c\/b\u003e Advice to Uddhava \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e33\u003c\/b\u003e The Death of the Deathless \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEpilogue: Lila--The Cosmic Play \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAppendix One. 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The imperial commentary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII.6 The Veda in the empire of writing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII.The Coming of Print to Indian Subcontinent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.1 The Missionary, the Government and the Commercial Printers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.2  Preachers, printers and Pundits\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.2.1The Jesuit printers of the western coast\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.2.2    German Danish Evangelists on the Coromandel Coast\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.2.3    The media revolution of Serampore 1800 –1837\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.2.4    Later Missionary print cultures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.3 The Empire in print and the Ethnographic State\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.3.1  The Infernal machine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.3.2   The Government Press and imperial typography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.3.3   Print, catalogues and native knowledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.3.4   The ethnographic state in print\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.4 Indian Commercial Printing after 1835 (New Beginnings)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV.The Printed Veda\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV.1 The lost, imagined and recovered Veda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV.2. The Philological Veda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV.3. The Imperial Veda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV.3.1. Max Muller and his patrons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV.4. The Printed Veda for Paṇḍitas and Pundits\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV.5. The Veda printed in India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV.5.1 The polluting ink\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV.5.2 Whose is the printed Veda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV.5.3. The codex and the pothi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eV.  The reading practices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV.1.  The cultural concepts and practices of reading\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV.1.1  The svādhyāya and the brahma-yajña\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV.1.2   brahmavidyā-dāna\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV.1.3  The vidhāna tradition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV.2. 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Printing revolution and social change\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI.2  Publishing Indian Religions in Print\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI.2.1  Printing and Appropriation of the past\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI.3 The regional print cultures and the Veda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eABBREVIATIONS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eREFERENCES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eINDEX\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084849291607,"sku":"9788323343912","price":35.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9788323343912.jpg?v=1725553534"},{"product_id":"bhagavad-gita-concordance-9780231141321","title":"Bhagavad Gita Concordance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book presents the first comprehensive and accessible concordance of the \u003ci\u003eBhagavad Gītā\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGraham M. 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Next on my reading list are the biographies of The Tibetan Book of the Dead and Augustine's Confessions.\"--April Peavey, WGBH \"Davis deftly traces the many reincarnations of this 700-verse poem over the past two millennia, both in India and in the West.\"--Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald \"[The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography] appears in the worthy 'Lives of Great Religious Books' series, which takes a novel approach to 'great books.' Davis's execution of this approach is superb ... Davis neatly organizes a great deal of material and he presents it in utterly accessible prose. This is an easy read - and a great one too.\"--Choice \"Davis ... provides a comprehensive, detailed and lucid account of the ways that the Gita has lived over the centuries.\"--Cover Drive \"A comprehensive, detailed and lucid account of the ways that the Gita has lived over the centuries.\"--Sudhirendar Sharma, Speaking Tree \"This is a fascinating work; so much is packed in its 243 pages. Being thoroughly researched and documented this serves as a primer on Gita. And also a template for those who would like to study the impact of religious texts on the life and history of human race.\"--Paulson Pulikottil, Academia \"So much in 243 small pages! Like the Sacred Books of the East in the nineteenth century, the Princeton series offers a fresh canon of global stature; thanks to Davis's superb retelling of the history of this powerful, influential, living classic, the Gita has its honoured place on that shelf.\"--Francis X. Clooney, Religions of South Asia \"A highly enjoyable volume that will be of interest to a large educated audience, to religious specialists, and to historians of modern and colonial India, among others... This volume will undoubtedly and quickly become a classic introduction to the Bhagavad-G?t?, or even more generally to classes on Hinduism.\"--Pierre-Julien Harter, Journal of Religion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of illustrations vii  Acknowledgments ix  Introduction 1  Chapter 1 The Bhagavad Gita in the Time of Its Composition 10  Chapter 2 Krishna and His Gita in Medieval India 43  Chapter 3 Passages from India 72  Chapter 4 Krishna, the Gita, and the Indian Nation 115  Chapter 5 Modern Gitas: Translations 154  Chapter 6 The Gita in Our Time: Performances 178  Epilogue The Bhagavad Gita in Great Time 204  Notes 211  Glossary of Sanskrit terms 227  Select English translations of the Bhagavad Gita 229  Further readings 233  Index 237","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403765752151,"sku":"9780691139968","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691139968.jpg?v=1730484477"},{"product_id":"the-ramayana-of-valmiki-an-epic-of-ancient-india-volume-iv-kiskindhakanda-9780691173498","title":"The Ramayana of Valmiki  An Epic of Ancient India","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations  Preface xv  Guide to Sanskrit Pronunciation xiii  PART I INTRODUCTION IX  1 Prologue 3  2 Synopsis 7  3 The Critical Edition 9  4 The Commentaries 17  5 The Description of the Four Directions 29  6 Rama's Allies 37  7 The Death of Valin 45  8 The Translation and Annotation 51  PART II KISKINDHAKANDA 53  PART III NOTES 195  Glossary of Important Sanskrit Words, Proper Nouns, and Epithets 367  Glossary of Flora and Fauna 371  Bibliography of Works Cited 373  Index 381","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403840528727,"sku":"9780691173498","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691173498.jpg?v=1730484683"},{"product_id":"the-bhagavad-gita-and-the-west-9780880106047","title":"The Bhagavad Gita and the West","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anthroposophic Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406442668375,"sku":"9780880106047","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780880106047.jpg?v=1730495827"},{"product_id":"the-bhagavad-gita-a-new-translation-9781611800388","title":"The Bhagavad-Gita: A New Translation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA  fresh English translation laid out facing the original Sanskrit for  easy reference and accompanied by a wealth of essential ancillary  materials that make this book a complete course on the \u003ci\u003eBhagavad-Gītā \u003c\/i\u003ein a single volume.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     This  translation stands out from the many others first of all in its careful  faithfulness to the original language, but also for the extensive tools  for understanding it provides. 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