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Gita Sara - Introduction (Part 3)

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Malolan R Cadambi • August 31, 2002 


shrIh
shrImatE rAmAnujAya namaha
shrImatE nigamAntha mahadesikAya namaha
shrImatE adivan satakOpaya namaha

Dear Bhaktas,

This is a brief note on Gitarthasangraha. Gitarthasangraha was a
commentary by Alavandar on the Bhagavad Gita. This commentary is in
Sanskrit. Sarvatantra Swatantrar, Swami Desikan wrote a commentary on
the Gitartha Sangraha also named the same in Tamil.

Uttamur Veeraraghavachar, honorifically called Abhinava Desika or the
contemporary desika wrote a masterly and easily comprehendable
commentary in tamil titled gita saaram. This book was published in
1966 in Tamil. Sri K Bhasyam translated it into English. This series
will be translating the print edition to electronic format for two
reasons. One, this is a start to one of my long term projects to make
a comprehensive website on the sri sookthis of our acharyas in
electronic format so as to preserve them for future generations to
come.

Two, this is the first brief explanatory series for the other two
series on gita to follow. The following two will be detailed
commentaries. I am hoping this series will serve as a base to
understand the other two.

Regards,

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan,

Malolan Cadambi

[ I believe Sri Uttamur Swami's Tamil work on the Gita was entitled
  'gitArtham'. -- Moderator ]


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