![]() ![]() “Playing With Tradition: Sacrifice, Ritual, and the Mahabharata's Dice Game.” Retrieved from: Van Buitenen, J.A.B. The Indian Epics Retold: The Ramayana The Mahabharata. PDF e-book by Renascene Editions, University of Oregon. Van Buitenen, The Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata: Text and Translation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981). The Bhagavadgita ('Song of the Lord') tells of the young and virtuous Prince Arjuna who is driven to lead his forces into battle against an opposing army composed of close relatives and others whom he loves. Philosophers such as Emerson and the other New England Transcendentalists were deeply affected by its insights, a dozen or more scholars, including Annie Besant and Mahatma Gandhi, have attempted its translation, and thousands of individuals struggling with the problems divided loyalties have found comfort and wisdom in its pages. ![]() No other Sanskrit work approaches the Bhagavadgita in the influence it has exerted in the West. ![]()
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