The Bhagavad Gita Is Created
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Philosophy, Literature, Publishing, Religion, Ethics
- Subcategories: Theology, Theologians, Poetry, Poets, Hinduism, Hindus
- Curriculum: Asian History, Ancient History
- Geographical Location: India
- Date: c. 200 -200
Article abstract: The Bhagavad Gita has become a central devotional text in Hinduism and is admired as a work of literature; it is preserved as an interlude in the great Hindu epic, the Mahābhārata.
Summary of Event
The Bhagavadgītā (The Bhagavad Gita, 1785; literally the divine song or song of the lord) is a brief interlude of eighteen chapters, or seven hundred Sanskrit verses, interpolated into the longest epic in all world literature, the Mahābhārata (400 b.c.e.-400 c.e., present form by c. 400 c.e.; The Mahabharata of...
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