THE BHAGAVAD GITA
The Song of the Lord
From the Mahabharata
In Mahadewanagari, a New Sanskrit Transliteration System

By Christopher Fulkerson

 

KRISHNA AND ARJUNA AT KURUKSHETRA
Krishna is the Charioteer, Arjuna the Standing Archer

The setting is that of the teaching of the Gita

THE VISION OF THE VISHVARUPA
KRISHNA REVEALS HIS UNIVERSAL FORM
TO ARJUNA
From Book Eleven of the Gita

THE BHAGAWAD GITA
Transliteration into Mahadewanagari
by Christopher Fulkerson
Copyright 1996-1997, and 2015
by Christopher Fulkerson


The Bhagavad Gita ("The Song of the Lord") is part of the Hindu epic the Mahabharata, which is with the Ramayana one of the two most important, and largest, Sanskrit epics. The Mahabharata is about the great Kurukshetra War between the Kaurava and the Pandava clans. There is ample archeological evidence that this war actually took place.

The Gita is the record of a briefing of the Kaurava villain Dhrtarashtra by his minister Samjaya, who relates a remarkable conversation between an enemy Prince, the Pandava hero Arjuna, and the god Lord Krshna, who has, much to Arjuna's amazement, turned out to be his chariot driver. This conversation between Arjuna and Krshna takes place in the middle of a huge battle, and constitutes a full course, in eighteen books, in the science of yoga.

This edition of the Gita is a transliteration from the original text into Roman letters using a transliteration system I developed and which I call Mahadewanagari. This system does not rely for its transliteration on any characters not available on a conventional keyboard.

Christopher A. Fulkerson, Ph.D.
October 29, 2015

San Mateo, California

Each volume of the Gita contains a one-page epitome of the Mahadewanagari system.

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Book One: The Despondency of Arjuna
27 Page PDF

Book Two: The Yoga of Knowledge
28 Page PDF


Book Three: The Yoga of Action
44 Page PDF

Book Four: The Yoga of the Renunciation of Action in Knowledge
47 Page PDF

Book Five: The Yoga of Renunciation
35 Page PDF

Book Six: The Yoga of Meditation
51 Page PDF

Book Seven: The Yoga of Knowledge and Discrimination
34 Page PDF

Book Eight: The Yoga of Imperishable Brahman
33 Page PDF

Book Nine: The Yoga of Royal Knowledge and of Royal Mystery
40 Page PDF

Book Ten: The Yoga of Manifestation
47 Page PDF

Book Eleven: The Yoga of the Vision of Universal Form
64 Page PDF

Book Twelve: The Yoga of Devotion
24 Page PDF


Book Thirteen: The Yoga of the Distinction
Between the Field-Knower and the Field
39 Page PDF

Book Fourteen: The Yoga of the Distinction
Between the Three Gunas
31 Page PDF

Book Fifteen: The Yoga of the Supreme Spirit
24 Page PDf

Book Sixteen: The Yoga of the Distinction
Between the Divine and Demonic Destinies
28 page PDF

Book Seventeen: The Yoga of the Distinction
of the Three Kinds of Faith
32 Page PDF

Book Eighteen: The Yoga of Renunciation
80 Page PDF

708 Total Pages

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I have an occasional correspondence with Mr. R.P. Jain of the distiguished Indian publishing house Motilal Banarsidass. He and I met in my cab and when he learned of my Sanskrit studes and that I am a Ph.D. in Classical Music, he expressed amazement at my situation, as any person with proper perceptions should, that I am having to drive a cab for a living. He endeared himself to me when he said of my lifelong plight,"This would never happen in India."

Mr. Jain has suggested I forward the following links to anyone who is interested in Classical Indian languages and philosophy, or India in general. But if you navigate away, please come back soon...

About Motilal Banarsidass
An Indian Social Networking Site Sulekha.com

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Last updated October 29, 2015

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