Bhagwad Gita Vivechanatmak Shabdakosh

SR No.: 020166
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Prahlad C Divanji
Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 411
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Dictionary
File Size: 12 MB

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Santacruz, Bombay. Dated 1st April 1943.*
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Critical Word-Index to the Bhagavadgită
gupta of about the middle of the 8th century and therefore most probably a senior contemporary of Sankara, has virtually remained in the same form throughout. Though the latter contains considerable variations and additional lines and stanzas, the basic structure, the purport of the teaching and even the wording of the major and material portion of the work remain unaffected by its discovery. The Jñanakarma-samuccaya doctrine which the Käśmirian commentators believed to be the purport of the teaching of the Lord had been believed to be so even by the Vṛttikara, a prior commentator whose views Sankara fights hard to refute. Manilal Nabhubhai in Gujrati and B. G. Tilak in Marathi had brought it out as its true purport, even though unaware of that recension. The Bhagavadgītā is thus a land-mark in the history of the Sanskrit language and the Indian philosophical literature. True, this fact does not by itself solve any of the problems to which I have alluded. It does, however, enhance the value of the work as a reliable guide in their solution from other internal data evaluated in the light of the other authoritative works on the principles of the various systems discussed therein and this Word-Index will, I hope, render the task of the collection of such data easier than it would otherwise have been. It is also possible that it may suggest either some new problems or new methods of approach to the old ones and render assistance in their solution. If this work is found helpful in all or any of the above ways I will have the satisfaction of having spent my time, energy and money in a worthy cause.
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P. C. DIVANJI.
* Some minor alterations and additions were made subsequently in this Introduction. in the light of new materials brought to my knowledge before it was sent to the Press.