Shankara Bhashya translation by Krishna Warrier - recommended

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Namaste all.

 

Maybe most of you know this. Recently I bumped into the book:

 

Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Bhashya of Sri Samkaracharya

With Text in Devanagari & English Rendering.

 

Translation by Dr. A.G. Krishna Warrier.

 

Published by Sri Ramakrishna Math, Madras, India. (2007)

ISBN 81-7120-269-1

 

 

My comments: The Translation as well as the printing of the Bhashya (where the

long phrases are split for reading convenience of beginners in Sanskrit) are

excellent. The English is simple, inspite of the fact that it is a translation

of a great Bhashya by the doyen of Bhashya-writing. Two things are to be noted.

There is nothing in the English translation which is not in the original

Sanskrit. And nothing of the original Sanskrit has been missed. Such a

translation with great fidelity is a rare phenomenon, particularly with

Bhashya-translations. I am enjoying the reading. I am using it for my weekly

Gita classes. I have read the English translation upto five chapters and I have

also browsed through the translation of the 'sarva-dharmAn parityajya' shloka of

the eighteenth chapter. Dr. Warrier breaks the Bhashya text into smaller parts,

such that each argument raised by a question of the opponent and the response

of Shankara is in a separate paragraph (both in the Sanskrit rendering and in

the translation). This helps the understanding tremendously. I wish Warrier

does a similar translation of Brahma Sutra Bhashya also.

 

 

PraNAms to all advaitins.

profvk

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I too to your view Prof.  One last thing that had Warrier done, would

have made this bhashya book unparelleled......that is eloborate footnotes to the

Bhashya.   For example, Swami Sachidananendra Saraswathi has brilliant foot

notes in his Gita Bhashya edition in Kannada.  I have heard from two of his

acute criticizers - praises for his foot notes in his Gita Bhashya Kannada

edition.  

 

Thanks & Regards,

Venkat.

 

Sadgurubhyo Namah.

 

--- On Wed, 13/5/09, V. Krishnamurthy <profvk wrote:

 

 

V. Krishnamurthy <profvk

Shankara Bhashya translation by Krishna Warrier -

recommended

advaitin

Wednesday, 13 May, 2009, 3:40 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Namaste all.

 

Maybe most of you know this. Recently I bumped into the book:

 

Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Bhashya of Sri Samkaracharya

With Text in Devanagari & English Rendering.

 

Translation by Dr. A.G. Krishna Warrier.

 

Published by Sri Ramakrishna Math, Madras, India. (2007)

ISBN 81-7120-269- 1

 

My comments: The Translation as well as the printing of the Bhashya (where the

long phrases are split for reading convenience of beginners in Sanskrit) are

excellent. The English is simple, inspite of the fact that it is a translation

of a great Bhashya by the doyen of Bhashya-writing. Two things are to be noted.

There is nothing in the English translation which is not in the original

Sanskrit. And nothing of the original Sanskrit has been missed.. Such a

translation with great fidelity is a rare phenomenon, particularly with

Bhashya-translation s. I am enjoying the reading. I am using it for my weekly

Gita classes. I have read the English translation upto five chapters and I have

also browsed through the translation of the 'sarva-dharmAn parityajya' shloka of

the eighteenth chapter. Dr. Warrier breaks the Bhashya text into smaller parts,

such that each argument raised by a question of the opponent and the response of

Shankara is in a separate paragraph

(both in the Sanskrit rendering and in the translation) . This helps the

understanding tremendously. I wish Warrier does a similar translation of Brahma

Sutra Bhashya also.

 

PraNAms to all advaitins.

profvk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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