निरामय - श्रीमद् भगवद् गीता

\ AMRITA KALASHAM GEETHA NAME The name Shrimad Bhagawad Geetha has three words.  ‘Geetha’ is song.  For any text to be sung, every line of it must have uniform meter. (We call it Akshara).  Geetha has sixteen aksharas in each line.  (There are a few verses with twenty two aksharas.)  Thus Geetha is a perfect poetic text for music. ‘Bhagawad’ means divine, of God or by God.  Bhagawad Geetha is a Song of God or a Song by God.  Arnold Toynbee gave an apt name to his English translation of Geetha, ‘The Song Celestial’.  Let us look at this word Bhagawad or Bhagawan in greater detail.  Samskrit has many words with suffix ‘wan’.  Suffix ‘Wan’ is equivalent to the suffix ‘ful’ in English.  It means ‘One who has....’.  What he has, is denoted by the prefix word.  One who has ‘Bala’ or strength is Balawan; one who has ‘Dhana’ or wealth is Dhanawan; one who is full of Sathya or Truth is Sathyawan.  Bhaga is Bo...