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Bhagavad Gita

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Introduction - The Scene; Theme; and Character - Gloom of Arjuna - Inner Doctrine - The Secret of Work - Spiritual Knowledge - Renunciation - Self Mastery - Spiritual Discernment - Mystery of Omnipresence - Kingly Knowledge - Universal Perfection - Universal Manifestation - Yoga of Devotion - Knower and the Known - Three Gunas or Qualities - Consciousness of the Supreme - Good and Evil Natures - Threefold Faith - Renunciation and Freedom - Contents -

party, bore the general name of the whole people --- Kurus: the younger branch bearing the name of Pandits, the term being derived from the name of Pandu, the father of the five chiefs commanding the army of their faction or branch.

The whole Kuru people were an old family, many generations having passed between the time of Kuru, its founder, and the time of the battle between the two branches. It is stated that the family, or people, originally inhabited a region beyond the Himalayas, and afterward emigrated into the northwest of the peninsula, and there founded the nucleus of a race who called themselves the Arya, or exalted, the term being intended to distinguish them from the lower tribes whom they conquered, and whose territory they wrested from them and occupied.

The history of the people immediately preceding the great war, and from the occurrences of which the war itself arose, is as follows:

At the capital of the country, a city called Hastinapura (supposed to be modern Delhi), reigned the king Vichitravirya. He married

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