Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents the first comprehensive and accessible concordance of the
Bhagavad Gītā.
Trade ReviewGraham M. Schweig’s
Bhagavad Gītā Concordance is the best work of its kind for all of Sanskrit literature. It is comprehensive, precise, and astonishingly user-friendly. No future translation of the Gītā or scholarly study of its language, philosophy, or theology can proceed without consulting this concordance. -- Ariel Glucklich, professor and chair of theology and religious studies, Georgetown University
Bhagavad Gītā Concordance fills a major lacuna in scholarship and will become a standard reference book and resource for millions of scholars and practitioners. Graham Schweig's translation of the Bhagavad Gītā
is a masterpiece, and this concordance is impeccably done. -- Gopal K. Gupta, author of
Māyā in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa: Human Suffering and Divine PlaySchweig’s comprehensive and utterly useful concordance of the Bhagavad Gītā is astonishingly the first of its kind, even though there have been other related reference works that precede it. Recollecting even a single word, phrase, or idea from the Gītā—a monumental and oft-memorized work of Indian philosophy and culture—both the scholarly and general reader can now easily consult this concordance to bountiful results. -- Deven M. Patel, author of
Text to Tradition: The Naiṣadhīyacarita and Literary Community in South AsiaThe Bhagavad Gītā
serves as the gateway for understanding the core principles and practices of Hindu Yoga. This remarkable concordance serves at least two purposes. First, it allows one to navigate all the complex and well chosen terms that define key ideas in the text. Second, it helps broaden one’s grasp of the Sanskrit language, tracing the root origins of words and their many derivations. This book is essential for all university libraries and for all intermediate Sanskrit seminars. -- Christopher Key Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology, Loyola Marymount University
Graham Schweig has lovingly and comprehensively put together the ultimate concordance of the Bhagavad Gītā. It is not just a list of words and other lexical items that are easily located in the main text, but the volume also includes several useful appendices of themes, Sanskrit-English and English-Sanskrit vocabulary along with four well-received translations of the Sanskrit-English vocabulary, a list of Sanskrit nominal stems and verbal roots, and the entire text in Roman transcription. This is an indispensable resource for students and lay readers who seek a better grasp of this supremely important Indian text. -- Frederick M. Smith, professor emeritus of Sanskrit and classical Indian religions, University of Iowa
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction: How to Use This Reference
1. Concordance
2. Families of Sanskrit Words
3. Word Indexes
4. The Transliterated Sanskrit Text
5. English Outline of 108 Gītā Themes
Appendix I: Details on the Concordance
Appendix II : Details on the Sanskrit Families
Appendix III : Details on the Word Indexes
Selected Bibliography
