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{{Infobox book
| name = ''The Bhagavad Gita''
| title_orig =
| translator =
| image = Krishna and Arjun on the chariot, Mahabharata, 18th-19th century, India.jpg
| caption = The setting of the ''[[Bhagavad Gita]]'': [[Krishna]] and [[Arjuna]] at [[Kurukshetra]], 18–19th century painting.
| author = [[Winthrop Sargeant]]
| illustrator =
| cover_artist =
| country =
| language = English
| series =
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| genre =
| publisher = SUNY Press (1984, 2009)
| pub_date = 1979; 1984; 2009
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| pages = 739
| isbn = 978-1-4384-2841-3
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}}
'''''The Bhagavad Gita''''' is the title of [[Winthrop Sargeant]]'s translation, first published in 1979, of the ''[[Bhagavad Gita|Bhagavad Gītā]]''
(Sanskrit: {{lang|sa|भगवद्गीता}}, "Song of [[Bhagavan|God]]"), an important [[Hinduism|Hindu]] scripture. Among Western English translations of the ''[[Bhagavad Gita|Gita]]'', Sargeant's is unusual in providing a word-by-word translation with parsing and grammatical explanation, along with [[Sanskrit]] and English renderings. The original edition was published in 1979 with the lengthy subtitle ''An interlinear translation from the Sanskrit, with word-for-word transliteration and translation, and complete grammatical commentary, as well as a readable prose translation and page-by-page vocabularies''. The subtitle was omitted from the 2nd edition (1984) and the 3rd edition (2009), which were edited by Christopher Chapple. [[Huston Smith]] wrote a foreword to the 3rd edition. Sargeant's translation has been described in ''[[The New York Times]]'',<ref name=whitman72/> and reviewed in professional journals.<ref name=denicolas81/><ref name=sternbach81/><ref name=gelblum86/>

==Topics covered==

The book consists of more than 700 pages, including about 30 pages of introductory material. The translation itself consists of 701 pages, each devoted to a single verse. Each page is divided into two major columns. The first column containing the Sanskrit is given in both [[Devanāgarī]] and romanized transliteration, followed by two English renderings. Firstly the author provides a literal translation following the Sanskrit word order where possible, then a polished English translation in verse form. The second column contains a word-by-word translation and grammatical analysis, parsing each of the words to show their inflection and part of speech. Indeed, while there are a number of translations of the Gita with a word-for-word rendering, there are not many that provide a full parsing like this for the student of Sanskrit.

In his foreword to the 2009 edition, [[Huston Smith]] wrote that he had written forewords to many books,
<blockquote>
but none with the urgency with which I write this one... Because this edition of the Gītā looks so daunting that general readers are likely to conclude that it is not for them. But that would be a serious mistake, for... this is a multivalent book -- there is something in it that will reward every serious reader.... For those who only want to read the Gītā's story... all they need do is read the verses on the bottom left-hand side of each page.... [for] elaboration, they will find it in the right-hand column... where, for example, ''[[dharma]]'' is translated as duty, law, righteousness, virtue, and honor.
(p. ix)
</blockquote>

==Reviews and influence==
Reviews and discussions have appeared in
''[[The New York Times]]'',<ref
name=whitman72>{{cite news
|author=Alden Whitman
|title=Music critic translates Bhagavad Gita for layman
|newspaper=New York Times
|date= March 1, 1972
|pages=26 }}</ref>
''[[Philosophy East and West]]'',<ref
name=denicolas81>{{cite journal
|author=Antonio T. de Nicolas
|year=1981
|title=Untitled (review of The Bhagavad Gita, translated by Winthrop Sargeant)
|journal=Philosophy East and West
|volume=31
|issue=1
|pages=98–101
|jstor= 1399071
|doi=10.2307/1399071}}</ref> and elsewhere.<ref
name=sternbach81>{{cite journal
|author=Ludwik Sternbach
|year=1981
|title=Untitled (review of The Bhagavad Gita, translated by Winthrop Sargeant)
|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society
|volume=101
|issue=4
|pages=479
|jstor= 601309
|doi=10.2307/601309}}</ref><ref
name=gelblum86>{{cite journal
|author=Tuvia Gelblum
|year=1986
|title=Untitled (review of The Bhagavad Gita, translated by Winthrop Sargeant)
|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
|volume=49
|issue= 3
|pages= 594–595
|jstor= 617860
|doi=10.1017/s0041977x00045407}}</ref>

In ''The New York Times'', Whitman described the work as a "soon-to-be-issued interlinear translation of the ''Bhagavad Gita'' for the nonspecialist reader" (p. 26<ref name=whitman72/>). The ''Times'' quoted Sargeant as stating that "I had been interested in the ''Bhagavad Gita'' for many years, but I was never very happy with the various translations of that religious epic into English... so I decided to do one myself for my intellectual stimulation and, at first, without any thought of publication" (p. 26<ref name=whitman72/>). It also stated that the final version of the translation had been bought by Doubleday in the US and by Allen & Unwin in Britain, and that it was being "composed <nowiki>[for printing]</nowiki> abroad because American printers are lacking in Sanskrit fonts."

==Editions==
The original edition was published in 1979 by Doubleday. Later US editions were published by [[SUNY Press]]. The editions are:
*{{cite book
|title=The Bhagavad Gita: An interlinear translation from the Sanskrit, with word-for-word transliteration and translation, and complete grammatical commentary, as well as a readable prose translation and page-by-page vocabularies
|last=Sargeant
|first=Winthrop
|author-link=Winthrop Sargeant
|year=1979
|publisher=Doubleday
|location=Garden City, NY
}} (751 pages)
*{{cite book
|title=The Bhagavad Gita
|last=Sargeant
|first=Winthrop
|author-link=Winthrop Sargeant
|editor=Christopher Key Chapple
|year=1984
|publisher=State University of New York Press
|location=Albany, NY
|isbn=978-0-87395-831-8
|url=https://archive.org/details/bhagavadgitasuny00chri
|url-access=registration
}} (739 pages)
*{{cite book
|title=The Bhagavad Gita
|last=Sargeant
|first=Winthrop
|author-link=Winthrop Sargeant
|editor=Christopher Key Chapple
|year=2009
|publisher=State University of New York Press
|location=Albany, NY
|isbn=978-1-4384-2841-3
}} (739 pages)

A related book, containing only the English rendering of each verse (and not the Sanskrit text, grammatical information, or footnotes) is the "pocket edition":
*{{cite book
|title=The Bhagavad Gita
|last=Sargeant
|first=Winthrop
|author-link=Winthrop Sargeant
|year=1994
|publisher=State University of New York Press
|location=Albany, NY
|isbn=978-0-7914-2030-0
}} (195 pages)


==References==
<references/>

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