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When Charles Wilkins translated the Bhagavad Gita into English in 1785, he could not have guessed what he was starting. Westerners at that time were hardly aware that India possessed a literary tradition or religious ideas that might be found illuminating.<p>Today the Gita is the best-known and best-loved of all non-Judaeo-Christian scriptures. More than 50 editions are available in the United States alone, and the Gita continues to gain new adherents. Yet there is little agreement about the Gita's message.</p><p>As Professor Sharpe shows, the Bhagavad Gita has made an enormous impression upon Western thought during the past two centuries. More surprising is the reciprocal impact that Western interpretations of the Gita have had upon indian politics and society. Some have gone so far as to claim that Hinduism was invented by Swami Vivekananda at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893.</p><p>The Gita fascinated such thinkers as Robert Southey, Wilhelm von Humboidt, Emerson, and Thoreau. The avowed non-violence of Mohandas Gandhi, who first read the Gita in English and considered it the most inspiring of scriptures, makes a strange contrast with the interpretation of

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Author

Eric John Sharpe

Publisher

LaSalle, IL: Open Court Pub. Co.

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780715625033

Category

religious

Subjects

Religion

Updated

2026-03-25