bhagavad—gītā f. pl. (sometimes with upaniṣad; once n(°ta). , [BhP.]) ‘Kṛṣṇa's song’, N. of a celebrated mystical poem (interpolated in the [MBh.] where it forms an episode of 18 chapters, from [vi, 830]-[1532], containing a dialogue between Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna, in which the Pantheism of the Vedānta is combined with a tinge of the Sāṃkhya and the later principle of bhakti or devotion to Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Being; cf. [IW. 122] &c.)