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64: 377: 365: 353: 285:. (1929). Indica by L. D. Barnett – 1. The Bhagavadgītā. Translated from the Sanskrit with an introduction, an argument, and a commentary, by Hill W. Douglas P. M.A. 9 × 6, pp. x 303. London, Oxford printed: Oxford University Press, 1928. 135:, was quite conscious of the difference between good and bad translations. He noted in his "Bibliographical Notes" that in the eighteen eighties and nineties the Bhagavadgītā had become "the playground of western pseudo- 287: 412: 309:(1929). The Bhagavadgītā. Translated from the Sanskrit with an Introduction and Argument and a Commentary by W. Douglas P. Hill. pp. 12, 303. London: Oxford University Press, 1928". 407: 402: 253: 432: 297:(1928). The Bhagavadgita, translated from the Sanskrit, with an Introduction, an Argument and a Commentary by W. Douglas P. Hill, 248: 197: 143:
Versions"; he referred to the greater part of other works on the Gītā as comparatively worthless," and he added: "Hundreds of
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W. Douglas P. Hill, who in 1928 gave us the most outstanding English rendering of the
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The Kṛṣṇa Cycle in the Purāṇas: Themes and Motifs in a Heroic Saga
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He was born in 1884 in London, England. In 1928 he translated the
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into English. He died on 9 April 1962 in Poole, Dorset, England.
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Reviews of Hill's translation of, and commentary on, the Gita
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
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Index

Bhagavad Gita
Indology
Literature portal
Indologist
King's College, Cambridge
master
Eton
principal
Benares
Bhagavad Gita
text
mystics
Theosophical
vernacular
Indian Office Library
Kees W. Bolle
The Bhagavadgītā
Oxford University Press
The Bhagavadgītā: A New Translation
University of California Press
Growse F. S.
The Rāmāyaṇa of Tulasīdāsa
Motilal Banarsidass
The Kṛṣṇa Cycle in the Purāṇas: Themes and Motifs in a Heroic Saga
Sharma, Arvind
The Study of Hinduism
University of South Carolina Press
Zaehner, R. C.
The Bhagavad-gītā
Oxford University Press

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