·-· . • • I THE I '" • J JOURNAL OF STUDIES IN THE -- BHAGA V ADGITA VOLUME I 1981 UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY AUSTRALIA EDI'IDRIAL MNIOORY OCWID Kees W. Bolle Ian Kesaroodi-watson Departrrent of History Departnent of Philosophy university of California I.a Trobe University IDS .ANGELES BllN!XX>RA California 90024 Victoria 3083 U.S.A. AUSTRALIA R.N. Dandekar Gajanan S. Khair Bahandarkar Oriental Research Institute Vidya POONA 4]] 004 Natu Baag INOlA 1912 Sadashiv PUNE 30 Eliot Deutsch INDIA Department of Philosophy University of Hawaii Klaus Klostermaier HCN)UJliJ 96822 Department of Religion U.S.A. University of Manitoba WINNIPEG Norvin J. Hein CANADA R3T 2N2 Professor of Comparative Religion Yale University Gerald J. Larson NEW HAVEN Department of Religious Studies Connecticut 06520 University of California U.S.A. SANI'A BARBARA California 93106 A.L. Herman U.S.A. Department of Philosophy University of Wisconsin T. G. Mainkar STEVENS POINI'S Department of Sanskrit Wisconsin 54481 university of Bombay U.S.A. J3a'o!BI>.Y 4 00 0 3 2" INDIA Eric J. Sharpe Department of Religious Studies University of Sydney SYDNEY N.S.W. 2006 AUSTRALIA Subscriptions: Institutions Individuals One year $15.00 $10.00 'IWo years $20.00 $15.00 (made payable to: The Journal of Studies in the Bhagavadgita Please send subscriptions and manuscripts to: Arvind Sharma Editor JSB Religious Studies University of Sydney Sydney N.S.W. 2006 AUSTRALIA 11anuscripts on any aspect of the Bhagavadgita may be submitted with double-line spacing and with the footnotes, numbered consectively, at the end. THE JOURNAL OF STUDIES IN THE BHAGA V ADGIT A VOLUME I 1981 THE DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY SYDNEY, N.S.W. 2006 AUSTRALIA ISSN 0706 - 6449 CXJNI'RIBUrORS 'IO THIS ISSUE ERIC J. SHARPE is Professor and Head of Department, Religious Studies, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. ROBERI' N. MTIIIOR is Assistant Professor of History of Asian Religions at the University of Kansas, U.S.A. He is the author of Sri Aurobindo: the Perfect and the Good (calcutta iirid coli:Dlibia, t-b., 1978) , and a recent article entitled '"J:'he Gita' s Way as the Only Way," in PhilOsophy West (1980) . Soon to be published in his Bhagavad-;sl:ti: An E:xegetical COm-entary by SOuth AsJ.a Books (COllmbia, fob., 1981) and Heritage Publishers (New Delhi, 1981). A.L. HERMAN was educated at Stanford, Harvard and -the -University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Bhagavad Gita: A Translation and critical Comentary (chiicles c. '11'iCiilaS , PUblishers) ; The Problem of Evil and Indian 'Ihought (1-btllai Banarsidass) ; An IntrOdUCtion to Indian Thought (Prentice- Hall); co-edJ.tor (with R.T. Blackwood) of Problems of Philo West and East Prent.1.ce-Ha He J.S aw:ren y Pro. essor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Wiscons:i,n, U.S.A. RlJl'H KATZ B.A. Barnard (1971) , M.A. (1973) and Ph.d. (1980) Earvard, is Assistant Professor in the Departnent of Religion at the Florida State University, Tallahassee. Her doctoral dissertation was on: ?\:;}una in the Mahabharata: Hero, Human and Devotee. SCME WESTERN INI'ERPRm'ATIONS OP THE BHAGAVADGITA ERIC J. SHARPE 1 THE BliAGAVA!XjiTA AND SCHOlARSHIP: AN APPRAISAL OF INIIDDUC'I"ORY CXlNCLUSIONS PDBERT N. MIOOR 29 FREE WILL AND CCMPUI.SION IN BHAGAVADGITA XVIII. 14, 59, 61 A. L. I-lERMAN 61 HUMI\N AND DIVINE TIME IN TilE BHAGAVADGITA RlJl'H KATZ 100 .