INTRODUCTION
THIS edition of the Bhagavad-Gita has been prepared for the use of those who, while studying this Hindu scripture mainly for the sake of its priceless teachings, wish, being little acquainted with Samskrit, to utilise the text, thus gaining a fuller insight into the meaning than can be gained through a translation, and incidentally acquiring a better knowledge of that language also. A brief note on the grammar of Samskrit, putting before the reader a few of the most Salient features thereof, is therefore added here, as likely to be of use. It will help by giving a bird's eye view of the Subject and thus some idea of how one part is connected with another. The details must of course be looked up in any large grammar if needed.
I. Alphabet :<-A complete alphabet would comprise hundreds, perhaps thousands, of single sounds. Out of these each human race or sub-race uses a comparatively small number, selected in accordance with the constitution of its vocal organs and of other aspects of its physical and superphysical being There is a correspondence between all the parts of an organism; and the means and instruments of manifestation possessed by a race or nation, as by an individual, are, generally speaking, in correspondence with the ruling passion, the main idea, which that race or nation embodies and has to express. These ideas,’ ‘passions,’ ‘emotions,' 'glories,' ‘aspects, ’ ‘modifications, ’ .
