21.01.09

Sinha at Questia

Posted in Uncategorized at 3:13 pm by nemo

Here’s the Questia link (costs money): The Gita as It Was: Rediscovering the Original Bhagavadgita
by Phulgenda Sinha. 268 pgs.
The TOC for what it’s worth:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xix
PART ONE 3
1. RELIGIOUS PRACTICES AND TRENDS OF THOUGHT IN ANCIENT INDIA TO 800 A.D. 5
The Stone Age 5
The Dravidians 7
The Indus Valley Civilization 8
Practice of Yoga and Forms of Religion in the Indus Valley Civilization 9
The Aryans 10
The Vedas 11
The Upanishads 13
The Religion of the Vedic People 16
The Caste System 20
Observations on the Vedic Period 22
The Age of Darshan (Philosophy) 23
Samkhya Darshan (Philosophy) 26
The Theme of Samkhya Philosophy 28
The Samkhya Theory of Knowledge 30
The Principle of Twenty-five Tattvas 33
The Samkhya Theory of Right Action 36
An Observation on Samkhya Philosophy 39
Interpolation in Samkhya Philosophy 40
Gautama Buddha 43
Mahavira 46
Patanjali 48
Yoga Sutra 49
Samyama and its Results 53
Samkhya, Yoga and Results 54
Interpolations in Yoga Sutra 56
An Appraisal of Patanjali 58
2. THE ORIGINAL GITA 61
The Matter of Scholarly Thought 63
Chronological Accounts of the Original Gita 67
Evidence in the Mahabharata 67
Evidence in Alberuni’s Work 68
Evidence in the Bhagavadgita Bhashaya 68
Evidence in the Brahma Sutras 69
External Evidence 70
Chronological Accounts of The Bhagavadgita 70
The Author of the Gita 73
Vyasa 73
Date of the Gita 75
Glimpses of the Original Gita 76
Contents of the Bhagavadgita 78
Evidence Showing the Continuity of the Original Gita Up to 800 A.D. 79
3. CORRUPTING THE ORIGINAL GITA 87
The Underlying Circumstances 87
The Revival of Brahmanism 92
Shankaracharya 93
An Appraisal of Shankaracharya 95
The Bhagavadgita and the Quran 101
The Bhagavadgita and the Bible 102
4. CONSEQUENCES OF CHANGING THE GITA 105
Political Submissiveness 106
Philosophical Distortions 109
Mystification of Yoga 113
Religious and Cultural Effects 115
5. THE REDISCOVERY OF THE ORIGINAL GITA 119
The Original Samkhya Karika 121
The Original Yoga Sutra 122
Scholarly Works on the Original Gita 123
The Key to the Original Gita 128
Pertinent Facts About the Original Gita 130
Interpolated Verses in the First Three Chapters 131
The Original and Interpolated Verses in the Extant Bhagavadgita 133
Verses of the Fifteen Interpolated Chapters 133
6. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS 141
The Cause of Social Development or Impoverishment 143
Action versus Thought 145
PART TWO 149
THE MAHABHARATA: BACKGROUND OF THE ORIGINAL GITA 151
TEXT OF THE ORIGINAL GITA 153
APPENDIX 239
GLOSSARY 243
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 247
INDEX

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