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There seems to be a general consensus of opinion among modern scholars that the Bhagavadgītā, as it now appears in the Epic, is not an original poem composed by a single hand, but an ancient work, rewritten and enlarged. But all are not agreed as to the history of the poem's composition.

— W. Douglas P. Hill The Bhagavadgītā (1973)

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Introduction: The doctrine of the Bhagavadgītā

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