Bhagavad Gita Concordance

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Graham M. Schweig's Bhagavad Gita Concordance is the best work of its kind for all of Sanskrit literature. It is comprehensive, precise, and astonishingly user-friendly. No future translation of the Gita or scholarly study of its language, philosophy, or theology can proceed without consulting this concordance. -- Ariel Glucklich, professor and chair of theology and religious studies, Georgetown University Bhagavad Gita Concordance fills a major lacuna in scholarship and will become a standard reference book and resource for millions of scholars and practitioners. Graham Schweig's translation of the Bhagavad Gita is a masterpiece, and this concordance is impeccably done. -- Gopal K. Gupta, author of <i>Maya in the Bhagavata Pura?a: Human Suffering and Divine Play</i> Schweig's comprehensive and utterly useful concordance of the Bhagavad Gita is astonishingly the first of its kind, even though there have been other related reference works that precede it. Recollecting even a single word, phrase, or idea from the Gita-a monumental and oft-memorized work of Indian philosophy and culture-both the scholarly and general reader can now easily consult this concordance to bountiful results. -- Deven M. Patel, author of <i>Text to Tradition: The Nai?adhiyacarita and Literary Community in South Asia</i> The Bhagavad Gita serves as the gateway for understanding the core principles and practices of Hindu Yoga. This remarkable concordance serves at least two purposes. First, it allows one to navigate all the complex and well chosen terms that define key ideas in the text. Second, it helps broaden one's grasp of the Sanskrit language, tracing the root origins of words and their many derivations. This book is essential for all university libraries and for all intermediate Sanskrit seminars. -- Christopher Key Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology, Loyola Marymount University Graham Schweig has lovingly and comprehensively put together the ultimate concordance of the Bhagavad Gita. It is not just a list of words and other lexical items that are easily located in the main text, but the volume also includes several useful appendices of themes, Sanskrit-English and English-Sanskrit vocabulary along with four well-received translations of the Sanskrit-English vocabulary, a list of Sanskrit nominal stems and verbal roots, and the entire text in Roman transcription. This is an indispensable resource for students and lay readers who seek a better grasp of this supremely important Indian text. -- Frederick M. Smith, professor emeritus of Sanskrit and classical Indian religions, University of Iowa Graham Schweig's concordance of the Bhagavad Gita, which is perhaps the most central Sanskrit text of devotional Hinduism over the last two thousand years with its abundance of commentaries, is a magnificent achievement of scholarship-one that will stand the test of time as a recourse for devotees and scholars on the subject. This is a work that has no rival. It will be resorted to and quoted again and again so long as the Gita retains its prominence. -- Julius L. Lipner, professor emeritus of Hinduism and the comparative study of religion, University of Cambridge