Bhishmaparva is the sixth book of the Mahabharata. With it begins the description of the great battle of Kurukshetra, which forms the central part of the ancient heroic epic, a kind of Indian Iliad. The Bhishmaparva includes the famous religious and philosophical poem "Bhagavad Gita", or "Song of the Lord", - the most significant of the didactic texts of the Mahabharata, considered the conceptual core of this grandiose epic. The poem, structured as a teaching addressed by Krishna, the god in human form, to a friend, one of the heroes of the battle, is one of the most revered sacred books of Hinduism, and its contents have had a huge influence on the spiritual life of India over the centuries. The significant impact of the ideological content of the Bhagavad Gita extends beyond the borders of the country; extensive research literature is devoted to it. There are numerous translations of this work into various languages of the world. The proposed first complete translation of the Sanskrit original "Bhishmaparva" into Russian is accompanied by the most detailed commentary, reflecting, among other things, the history of the study and interpretation of the "Bhagavad Gita", including the results of recent research.

CONTENTS: From the translator 5BhishmaparvaTranslation by V.G. . Ermana Extent of the Jambu continent (ch. 1-11) 9 Earth (ch. 12-13) 28 Song of the Lord (ch. 14-40) 33 Killing of Bhishma (ch. 41-117) 93 Appendices V.G. Erman. The book about Bhishma as the plot core of the Mahabharata 281S.D. Silver. Multi-valued revelations of the Bhagavad Gita 291 Comments. Compiled by VT. Erman 336 Literature 422 Dictionary of epic and mythological names 430 Dictionary of geographical and ethnic names 440 Index of names of epic and mythological characters 450 Index of geographical and ethnic names 463 Index of objects and terms 471