By Dr. Anirban Sadhu (“The Eye of the Beholder”) www.eyeoſthebeholder.ch • eyeofthebeholder.gallerie@gmail.com HHumanity has always interpreted its greatest leaps — agricultural, industrial, digital — through metaphors drawn from its deepest spiritual memory. The Indian philosophical imagination, with its cyclic view of time and archetypal Avatāras, provides one of the most powerful interpretive frameworks for understanding moments of civilizational rupture. Artificial …
A Jewel of Indology: Charles Wilkins’ 1785 English Bhagavad Gita
Among collectors of Indian antiquarian books, few items command the reverence, prestige and sheer emotional pull of Charles Wilkins’ 1785 English translation of the Bhagavad Gita. To hold it is to hold a turning point in the intellectual history of the world — the moment when one of India’s most sacred philosophical texts formally entered the European printed tradition. Why …