'Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds' – the Bhagavad Gita explained

  • Written by: Debjani Ganguly, Professor of Literature, Australian Catholic University
'Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds' – the Bhagavad Gita explainedPage from a 19th-century illustrated Sanskrit manuscript of the Bhagavad Gita.British Library, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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