Hindu Philosophy

First Published in 2000.This is Volume VII of fourteen of a series on India- its language and literature. The Bhagavad Gita is a Sanskrit philosophical poem written in the usual verse form of the Hindu epic poems and is an episode in the sixth book or Bhlshma Parvan of the Mahabharata an epic poem devoted mainly to the deeds of the rival princes who though descended from a common ancestor Kuru fought as Kauravas and Pandavas for the kingdom of which Hastinapura was the capital