Gita Bhashya -Sankara 675

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -16

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Iti Śrī Mahābhārate śatasāhasryām samhitāyām
Vaiyāsikyārn Bhīsina-Parvani Śnmad-Bhagavad-
GttāsūpcaihatsN Brahmavidyāyām yoga-śāstre
Śri Krsnārjuna-samvāde Daivāsura-sampot-
vibhāga-yogo nūina sodaśo(a)dhyāyah.

Thus the sixteenth chapter entitled 'The Mode of Dividing Divine and Demoniac Properties' in the Upanisads known as 'The Celebrated Songs of the Lord'-expounding the knowledge of the Supreme Spirit, and the Science of Yoga, in the form of a dialogue between Śrī Krtfjna and Arjuna embodied in the Bhīsma Parva of Śrī Mahābhārata, the Compendium of one hundred thousand verses produced by Vyāsa.

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