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PUBLISHER'S NOTE TO THE
FIRST EDITION
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Twenty-eight years ago I published a
popular edition of the Bhagavad Gita with
the text in Devanagari and an English
translation by Dr. Annie Besant. This
book has run through ten editions, and as
many as one hundred and forty thousand
copies of this great scripture have thus
found their way to thousands of homes in
India and elsewhere.
Ever since the publication of this Song
Celestial, I have been anxious to present a
condensed edition of the great Indian Epic,
the Ramayana, in Valmiki's own words,
detailing the story in full, with the renown-
ed dialogues, the beautiful character sket-
ches and some of the inimitable descrip-
tions. It is hardly six months since I
commenced this work and I am glad that,
with the help of Prof. P. P. S. Sastri who
applied himself to the task with great
FIRST EDITION
1:011
Twenty-eight years ago I published a
popular edition of the Bhagavad Gita with
the text in Devanagari and an English
translation by Dr. Annie Besant. This
book has run through ten editions, and as
many as one hundred and forty thousand
copies of this great scripture have thus
found their way to thousands of homes in
India and elsewhere.
Ever since the publication of this Song
Celestial, I have been anxious to present a
condensed edition of the great Indian Epic,
the Ramayana, in Valmiki's own words,
detailing the story in full, with the renown-
ed dialogues, the beautiful character sket-
ches and some of the inimitable descrip-
tions. It is hardly six months since I
commenced this work and I am glad that,
with the help of Prof. P. P. S. Sastri who
applied himself to the task with great