Hindu Philosophy - John Davies

Hindu Philosophy

Bhagavad Gita or, The Sacred Lay

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Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2000
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-24520-3 (ISBN)
64,80 inkl. MwSt
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

John Davies, Member of the Royal Asiatic Society, of the Cambridge Philological Society and sometime Rector of Walksoken, Norfolk.

Introduction; I. The Despondency of Arjuna; II. The Sankhya-Yoga (Doctrine); III. Devotion by Work; IV. The Devotion of Knowledge; V. Devotion by Renouncing Works; VI. Devotion By Self-Restraint; VII. Devotion Through Spiritual Discernment; VIII. Devotion to the Supreme Eternal Brahma; IX. Devotion Through the Royal Knowledge and the Royal Mystery; X. Devotion by the Divine Perfections; XI. The Manifestation of the Universal Form; XII. The Devotion of Worship; XIII. Devotion by the Separation of Matter and Spirit; XIV. Devotion by Separation from the Three Modes; XV. Devotion in Attaining to the highest Being; XVI. Devotion with Regard to the Separate State of Gods and Asuras; XVII. Devotion by the Threefold Kinds of Faith; XVIII. Devotion in Deliverance and Renunciation; Appendix.; I. On the Date at Which the Bhagavad G?t? was Probably Written, and on the Theory That It was Written Under an Influence Derived from a Knowledge of Christian Doctrines; II. The Traditionary Line of Descent of the Lunar Dynasty; III. Collation of Two MSS. with the Bonn Edition of the Bhagavad G?t?, and the Readings of Other Editions and MSS; Index;

Erscheint lt. Verlag 23.11.2000
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 385 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-415-24520-6 / 0415245206
ISBN-13 978-0-415-24520-3 / 9780415245203
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