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n. - (Hinduism) the sacred `song of God' composed about 200 BC and incorporated into the Mahabharata (a Sanskrit epic).

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  • Even in his speech in 1907, Aurobindo used the rhetoric of the Bhagavadgita to sway his audience:
  • He also translated the Bhagavadgita from Sanskrit (1943), as well as Ovid's Ars amatoria from Latin (1925).
  • Bhagavadgita, or Das Kapital by Karl Marx, Shakespeare was a common denominator for the prisoners at Robben Island.
  • Noteworthy within the epic is the Bhagavadgita (“Song of the Lord”), which first urges personal love and devotion (bhakti) to Krishna.
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