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Hindu Philosophy Import and the fragmentation and reinforcementFirst Published in 2000. This is Volume VII of fourteen of a series on India its language and literature. The Bhagavad Gita is a Sanskrit philosophical poem, written in the usual verse form of the Hindu epic poems, and is an episode in the sixth book, or Bhlshma Parvan, of the Mahabharata, an epic poem devoted mainly to the deeds of the rival princes, who, though descended from a common ancestor, Kuru, fought as Kauravas and Pandavas for the kingdom