Hindu shelf · Smriti · Mahabharata, Bhishma Parva
Bhagavad Gitaश्रीमद्भगवद्गीता · The Song Celestial
On the field of Kurukshetra, before the great battle of the Mahabharata, Prince Arjuna lays down his bow, and Krishna, his charioteer, answers him: on duty, the Self that is not slain, work without desire for its fruit, devotion, and the vision of the universal form. Here are all eighteen chapters, 700 Sanskrit verses, each chapter beside Sir Edwin Arnold’s English verse.
Public domain. Arnold’s translation was published in 1885; Arnold died in 1904. The Sanskrit is the ancient text.