Gita Slokas

[Ashish Sharma]

Pranaam Learned Scholars and Guruvars

As you all must be knowing that there are 745 slokas in Geeta instead of 700 slokas. Abhinav Gupta and Sarvato Bhadra too wrote a commentary on all slokas.

In 'Mahabharata' the Bhagwat Gita was told by Lord Krishna to
Arjuna. It was composed in the Mahabharata in 'Bhisma Parwa' at 42
chapter by the great sage Sri Vedavyasa Maharishi. After compleation
of this chapter Sri Vedavyasa Maharshi mentiond the slokas naumber
which was spoken by Lord Krishna, Arjuna, Sanjaya amd King
Dhrutarashtra as 620, 57, 67, 1, respectively as mentiond below. .

" Shatsataani samvisaani slokaanaam praaha kesavaha
arjunaha saptapanchaasat saptashasthimcha sanjayaha
dhrutaraastraha slokamekam giitaayaa maanamuchyate " 

We may find this sloka in the 43 chapter of Mahabharata.

But i have found mostly 700 slokas in Gita and specially in Gitapress books which are famous in north India under religious books.

As per one of my guru's instruction, i searched on critical edition of Mahabharata, in Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) in Pune.

But did not found there also. Many scholars says that the commentory of Abhinav Gupta itself a proof for the existance of extra 45 shlokas.

Kindly give me the guidance as whether to consider 45 slokas in Geeta is appropriate or not? How to get the authenticity of those slokas?

I had mailed my query to Gitapress but yet no reply got from them.

Waiting for right direction.

Regards

Ashish Sharma

Decrypting of Astrological Texts
OSD to President and Assistant Controller of Examinations of  Indian Council of Astrological Sciences(ICAS)

[Ajit Gargeshwari]

Shankara and Abhinava gupta comments on 2 different  recessions of Bhagavad Gita. In given printed edition of a text it is the editors decision which verses he includes and which verses he retains.

This is view of a scholar. This is a quote please see http://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l/2012-November/033538.html

The Critical edition of the Mahabharata (The Bhagavadgita Being Reprint of Relevant Parts of Bhismaparvan, edited by Shripad Krishna Belvalkar, second reprint, BORI, Poona, 1968, footnote, p. 77) does not recognize the five and half verses of Adhyaya 43 of the Bhishma Parvan beginning with the words 'Gita sugita..', which refer to the existence of 745 verses in the Gita, they are available in other editions (like Mahabharata, vol. 4, Bhismaparva, translated by M.N.Dutt, eds. Ishwar Chandra Sharma and O.N. Bimali, Parimal Publications, Delhi, 2006, p. 115).

There is a difference of opinion if these lines form part of the genuine Mahabhara. But the Mahabharata commentator Nilakantha remarks that the Gauda (Northern) recession of the Mahabhara goes without these lines. The Southern recension of the Mahabharata, where these lines occur, might have been used by Keshava Kashmiri Bhatta and other Kashmirian commentators ('The Computation of the Bhagavadgita' by Pandit R. M. Shastri, Allahabad University Studies XII, Arts and Science, 1936, pp.67-68), though while commenting on the Gita they follow the Vulgate text containing 700 hundred verses only.

Regards
Ajit Gargeshwari
न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिन्नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः।
अजो नित्यः शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे।।2.20।।

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[Swami Karunakarananda Maharaj]

There is a book called "Ancient Bhagavadgita: Original text of 745 verses with critical introduction" By Vedavyas E. That has nice introduction. Please refer to that.

Narayana Smriti,

Swami Karunakarananda Puri

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Karunakarananda