The Indian Mahabharata epic includes one of the most important texts of Hinduism: the Bhagavadgita. Angelika Malinar analyses the doctrines of the text in a chapter-by-chapter discussion. She also considers its historical and cultural contexts and the features that became paradigmatic in later Hindu religious traditions.

Angelika Malinar analyses the doctrines of the Bhagavadgita and its historical and cultural contexts.