Question


How many prominent and most accepted commentaries are there on the Bhagavad-Gita?

Answer


Well, I'm aware of thirty-three commentaries on the Bhagavad-Gita:


Achintya-Bheda-Abheda Vedanta

• Sarartha Varsini Tika, Vishvanatha Chakrabarti Thakura's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.

• Gita Bhusana, Baladeva Vidyabhusana's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.

• Satyanarayan Das Babaji's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can buy it in English here.

• Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.

• B.R. Sridhara Maharaj's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.

• Bhaktivinoda Thakura's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.


Advaita Vedanta

• Adi-Shankaracharya's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.

• Bhavartha Dipika, Dhyaneshwar's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.

• Gutharta Dipika, Madhusudana Saraswati's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can buy it in English here.

• The Holy Geeta, Swami Chinmayananda's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.

• Geeta Rahashya, Bal Gangadhara Tilak's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.

• Swami Sivananda's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.

• Swami Chidbhavananda's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.

• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.

• Discourses on the Gita, Mohandas Gandhi's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.

• Talks on the Bhagavad-Gita, Vinod Bhave's can on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.


Shuddhadvaita Vedanta

• Sridhara Swami's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can buy it in English here.


Dvaita Vedanta

• Madhvacharya's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.

• Jayatirtha's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can buy it in Sanskrit here.

• Raghavendratirtha's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can buy it in Sanskrit here.


Integral Yoga

• Essays on the Gita, Sri Aurobindo's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.


Kashmiri Shaivism

• Gitartha Sangraha, Acharya Abhinavagupta's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.


Kriya Yoga

• God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad-Gita, Paramahamsa Yogananda's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can buy it in English here.


Shivadvaita Vedanta

• Srikantha Sivacharya's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita.


Svabhavika-Bheda-Abheda Vedanta

• Yadava Prakasha's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita.


Vishishtadvaita Vedanta

• Swami Ramabhadracharya's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it both in Sanskrit and Hindi in a set of two volumes here and here.

• Ramanujacharya's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.

• Muktananda Swami's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita.

• Gopalananda Swami's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can read it in English here.


Miscellaneous:

• My Gita, Devdutt Pattnaik's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can buy it in English here.

• Bhagavad-Gita: A Text & Commentary for Students, Jeanne Fowler's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can buy it in English here.

• Exploring the Bhagavad-Gita: Philosophy, Structure and Meaning, Ithamar Theodore's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can buy it in English here.

• F. Edgerton's commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita. You can buy it in English here.



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