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Foreword xi In his introduction Abhinavagupta indicates the purport of the Gīta thus: While knowledge is what is important, actions should not be abandoned. Performance of actions, while based on knowledge, does not bind-Karmaṇām jñānaniṣṭhataya kriya- māṇānāmapi na bandhakatvam. While knowledge is the main thing and knowledge and action are not equally important, the latter is inevitably connected with the former as both together constitute cons- ciousness. Jñanakriyamayatvät samvittattvasya (GS, ch. iii, 3). III Abhinavagupta's commentary on the Gita was published with others from Bombay in 1912 and 1936 and from Delhi in 1978. It was published separately from Srinagar in 1933. R. Gnoli's Italian transla- tion of it was published from Torino in 1976. I am not aware of any other translation of it. In the present work, Professor Dr S. Sankara- narayanan has edited it on the basis of the above editions and Mss. from the BORI, Poona, and has for the first time translated it into English and provided it with Notes based on his extensive reading of Pratyabhijña literature. This editor- translator learnt the Krsnayajurveda, Kramânta, for ten years in the traditional way, then studied Nyaya and became a Siromani in it with a I class 1st from Annamalai University, and finally became a M.A. in History and Politics also from the same and a Ph.D in History with a thesis on the Vişnukundis. He worked in the Epigraphy branch of the Archaeo-