Kyle Harrison
research-paper
The Song Celestial — Bhagavad Gita
TL;DR — Arnold’s 1885 blank-verse translation of the Gita — the version that reached the English-speaking world first.
⬇ Download the archived copy — kept here so the document survives its source going dark. Public domain by age (pre-1929).
Sir Edwin Arnold’s verse translation, the one through which most nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century English readers met the text. Gandhi read the Gita first in this translation.
A scanned Jaico edition. As with any verse translation, the English is doing a great deal of work — Arnold is an interpreter as much as a translator, which is worth knowing before quoting it.
Where this came from
108 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.