Gita Bhashya -Sankara 508

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -12

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Iti Śn Mahābhārate śata-sāhasryātn samhitāyām
Vaiyāsikyām Bhīsma-Parvani Śnmad-Bhagavad-
Gītāsūpanhatsu Brahma-vidyāyām yoga-śāstre
Śrī Krsnārjuna-samvāde Bhakti-yogo nāma
dvādaśo(a)dhyāyah.

Thus the twelfth chapter entitled 'The Way of Devotion' n the Upanisads known as' The cele­ brated Songs of the Lord' expounding the Know­ ledge of the Supreme Spirit, and the Science of Yoga, in the form of a dialogue between

Śrī Krsna and Arjuna - embodied in the Bhīsma Parva of śrī Mahābhārata, the Compendium of one hundred thousand verses produced by Vyāsa.

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