SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA OF BHAGAVAN SRI KRISHNA (26 Adhyayas or Chapters & 745 Slokas or Verses)
(The Suddha Dharma Mandalam Edition of Srimad Bhagavad Gita)
Translated into English by R. VASUDEVA ROW, Assisted and published by T. M. JANARDANAM
Publisher: SUDDHA DHARMA MANDALAM ASSOCIATION, The Suddha Dharma Office, Mylapore, Chennai (Madras), India. Email: suddhadharma@gmail.com
Binding: Hardcover (Suddha Dharma Tract No. 4 )
Language: English and Sanskrit text in Devanagari alphabet. (Number of pages 225 )

Srimad Bhagavad Gita is the one supremely holy book in the proud possession of Aryavarta for millennia, that has exacted the admiration and adoration of scholars and laymen alike both in the East and the West.

It is also evident it is again the one book, whose authority is invoked by one and all in support of pet theories as also of those pertaining to sectarian disputations. That the teaching of the Gita has nothing to do whatsoever with such distressing controversies and curious theoretical malformations, but that it is a precious book of whole culture, continues to be lamentably missed still, in spite of the voluminous literature on the subject, and with what is added on to it year after year.

This is essentially due to the baneful tendency to read into the Gita one's own predilections and not making an applied attempt to understand critically the central theme of the teaching as it is. That the Suddha Sanatana Dharma is the one most suitable Dharma to the human family during Kali epoch was anticipated by the Divine Narayana in His last great Advent as Sri Krishna, when He graciously vouchsafed the teaching of this Supreme Dharma in the form of the Gita to Arjuna.

This Supreme Dharma, otherwise known as Pranava Sastra or Gayatri Dharma or Yoga Brahma Vidya, is Srimad Bhagavad Gita, the correct text of which was published by Suddha Dharma Mandalam, near 1917., T. M. Janardanam, 1939.

The Suddha Dharma Mandalam Edition of Srimad Bhagavad Gita (with 26 adhyayas and 745 slokas) it was first published in 1917 by the late Dr. Sir S. Subrahmanier and the late Pandit K. T. Sreenivasacharya; they were enabled to do so by some of the Elders of the Suddha Dharma Mandalam, who graciously secured for the purpose the Manuscript of this Text, along with those of other philosophic works, in Their safe keeping, from the archives of Suddha Kosha in the Maha Guha in Northern India, known to a few among us.

The many books, which have followed its first publication, throw a flood of light on the philosophy of Suddha Dharma, of which, it is claimed by the Elders, the Gita is the best and most complete exposition extant. Its philosophy and teaching present a distinctive orientation and exercise a compelling influence.
To the earnest reader it opens a rich field for investigation; to those, who would fain follow its lucid lead, it furnishes not only a workable hypothesis of life, but provides with a positive guidance, revealing certain criteria for spiritual progression and uplift.

The antiquity of this Text is evident from the fact that more than thirty commentators have based their learned commentaries on it; from whose works Hamsa Yogi (fifth century A.D. i.e. prior to the three Acharyas of the Vedanta school) makes elaborate quotations in his own monumental commentary, of which the Upodhghata and that of the first two chapters have been published.

Besides, quite a number of books, such as Pranavarnava, Sanatana Dharma Deepika, Khanda Rahasya, Yoga Rahasya, Swarodaya Rahasya, Adhyatma Ratnarnava, and many others make extracts from the Gita, quoting chapter and verse as found and occurring in this Text.

Also the authority of the Suddha system of Philosophy is amply borne out not only by the united consent of them all but even by the intrinsic excellence of its utter catholicity and singular freedom from sectarian and class bias of any kind whatever.
It is needless to say that an honest study of it will stimulate in the reader intensive research, finally inclining him to take to its practice.

It may be noted that, generally, angry denunciations and hasty judgments and conclusions are only the necessary outcome of an ill-conceived approach and fanatical outlook, or may even emerge from an irresponsible, narrow, or sophistically warped mentality.

Exhibition of such phenomenon is happily rare now, though by no means absent; and these cannot seriously influence any ardent reader -nay, these may even forcibly react, tending to induce in him, as is often the case, a deeper admiration, interest and faith in respect of what is thus unreasonably assailed.

Be that as it may -let us be content to read to know, and, thereafter, know to read, and act. The Elders of Suddha Dharma Mandalam reckon that over one hundred and thirty centuries have elapsed since the occurrence of the eventful Mahabharata War, on the first day of whose waging, the Great Counsel was delivered to Arjuna by the Lord on the battle-field of Kurukshetra.

The age of the Gita also has thus to be synchronized with it accordingly.
R. Vasudeva Row, 1939.