Introduction] and the Abhinavabharatī, a commentary on the Natya- Sastra of Bharata are quite popular among the Sans- kritists all over the world. His Vivrtis on the Isvara- pratyabhijñākārikās etc., his independent works like the Tantraloka, Paramarthasara etc. are well-known to all the students of Kashmir Saivism. However, Ag.'s Bhagavadgitarthasangraha (GS), which is now being brought out in these volumes with English transla- tion is not so well-known, eventhough the work has been in print since 1912. Therefore we confine our- selves to a brief study of the GS here. xv Ag. speaks of the numerous commentaries of earlier authors available with him. What those commentaries could have been is difficult to ascer- tain. Yet it is certain that he had with him the complete text of the bhasya of Bhaskarācārya. For, Ag. refers to him by name and also his gloss with veneration in the last chapter of the GS and refutes his views not mentioning the name.* Basing on this 1. 2. 3. See below. GS, intro verse 5. Ch. XVIII, 2. Of course Bhaskara's commentary, as we have now, is an incomplete one breaking off at the penulti- mate verse in chapter IX. However, Ag.'s present refe- rence appears to remove the doubt whether Bhaskara had commented upon the entire text of the BG. Cf. Bhagavad- Ed. Subhadropadhyaya gta Bhasya by Bhaskaracarya : (Varanasi 1965): Sanskrit intro page (a). It is to be noted that the BG text commented upon by Bhaskara is largely Kashmirian text. 4. See e.g. ch. IX, 33-35: Hereinafter the references to the BG chapters and verses include the Tippani and also the Notes on those verses in pt. II.
