Sir Edwin Arnold’s The Song Celestial (1885) is one of the most widely read English verse translations of the Bhagavad-Gîtâ — the philosophical dialogue embedded in the Mahâbhârata in which the god Krishna counsels the warrior Arjuna on duty, action, and the nature of the soul. Arnold’s flowing blank verse made this foundational Sanskrit text accessible to millions of English readers.
The translation influenced figures from Emerson to Gandhi to T. S. Eliot. This free EPUB presents the complete eighteen chapters cleanly formatted for reading on any device.