Hinduism
Bhagavad Gita
Selected verses from all eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad Gita in Sir Edwin Arnold's verse translation, The Song Celestial (1885).
This text is a selection. Selections — about 240 of roughly 700 shlokas. Passage numbers do not correspond to traditional verse numbers.
Chapters
Chapter 1 · Arjuna's Dilemma8 versesChapter 2 · Transcendent Knowledge19 versesChapter 3 · The Yoga of Action6 versesChapter 4 · The Yoga of Knowledge5 versesChapter 5 · The Yoga of Renunciation5 versesChapter 6 · The Yoga of Meditation12 versesChapter 7 · Knowledge and Wisdom10 versesChapter 8 · The Imperishable Brahman12 versesChapter 9 · The Royal Knowledge17 versesChapter 10 · The Divine Manifestations3 versesChapter 11 · The Vision of the Universal Form49 versesChapter 12 · Devotion4 versesChapter 13 · The Field and Its Knower12 versesChapter 14 · The Three Gunas11 versesChapter 15 · The Supreme Person15 versesChapter 16 · Divine and Demonic Natures8 versesChapter 17 · Three Kinds of Faith13 versesChapter 18 · Liberation Through Renunciation31 verses
- Translation
- Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial — Sir Edwin Arnold (1885)
- Language
- English
- Licence
- Public domain
- Source
- The Song Celestial, or Bhagavad-Gîtâ (1885)
- Note
- A Victorian verse rendering; passage numbers are Divine Reader's, not the Sanskrit shloka numbers.