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The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation with Commentary. By DAVID WHITE. American University Studies, series VII: Theology and Religion, vol. 39. New York and Bern: PETER LANG, 1988. Pp. 246, Index, $42.50.
In addition to his translation and brief explanatory notes interspersed in the text, Professor White's book has a general index. This index includes a selection of Sanskrit terms in transliteration that refer the reader to their translated equivalent (or approximation). Though the introduction tells us that "the translation is not primarily directed to the attention of Sanskritists or other Indologists" (p. 10), it is difficult to see why the same pages use diacritical marks in some instances and not in others, and sometimes with some letters in a word, while they are left out in the remainder of the same word. The same arbitrariness unfortunately also prevails in the text of the translation....