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The Bhagavad Gita is also called [[Gītopaniṣad]], implying its having the status of an [[Upanishad]], i.e. a Vedantic scripture.[7] Since the Gita is drawn from the Mahabharata, it is classified as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smriti Smṛti] [[text]]. However, those branches of Hinduism that give it the status of an Upanishad also consider it a śruti or "revealed" text.[8][9] As it is taken to represent a summary of the Upanishadic teachings, it is also called "the Upanishad of the Upanishads".[1] Another title is mokṣaśāstra, or "Scripture of Liberation".[10]

The Bhagavad Gita is also called [[Gītopaniṣad]], implying its having the status of an [[Upanishad]], i.e. a Vedantic scripture.[7] Since the Gita is drawn from the Mahabharata, it is classified as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smriti Smṛti] [[text]]. However, those branches of Hinduism that give it the status of an Upanishad also consider it a śruti or "revealed" text.[8][9] As it is taken to represent a summary of the Upanishadic teachings, it is also called "the Upanishad of the Upanishads".[1] Another title is mokṣaśāstra, or "Scripture of Liberation".[10]

==Date and text==

==Date and text==

The Bhagavad Gita occurs in the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata and comprises 18 chapters from the 25th through 42nd and consists of 700 verses.[11] Its [[author]]ship is [[traditionally]] ascribed to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyasa Vyasa], the compiler of the Mahabharata.[12][13] Because of [[difference]]s in recensions the verses of the Gita may be numbered in the full text of the Mahabharata as chapters 6.25–42 or as chapters 6.23–40.[14] According to the recension of the Gita commented on by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shankara Shankaracharya], the number of verses is 700, but there is [[evidence]] to show that old manuscripts had 745 verses.[15] The verses themselves, using the range and style of [[Sanskrit]] meter (chhandas) with similes and [[metaphors]], are written in a poetic form that is traditionally chanted.

The Bhagavad Gita occurs in the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata and comprises 18 chapters from the 25th through 42nd and consists of 700 verses.[11] Its [[author]]ship is [[traditionally]] ascribed to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyasa Vyasa], the compiler of the Mahabharata.[12][13] Because of [[difference]]s in recensions the verses of the Gita may be numbered in the full text of the Mahabharata as chapters 6.25–42 or as chapters 6.23–40.[14] According to the recension of the Gita commented on by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shankara Shankaracharya], the number of verses is 700, but there is [[evidence]] to show that old manuscripts had 745 verses.[15] The verses themselves, using the range and style of [[Sanskrit]] meter (chhandas) with similes and [[metaphors]], are written in a poetic form that is traditionally chanted.