The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran

╭ Glossary
This brief glossary is a guide
only to Sanskrit terms used in this volume. Words used once
and explained in context are not included. As a rough guide,
Sanskrit vowels may be pronounced as in Italian or Spanish.
The combinations kh, gh, th, dh, ph, and bh are always pronounced
as the consonant plus a slight h sound: th as in hothead
(not as in thing); ph as in haphazard (not as in phone).
Every Sanskrit vowel has a short and a long form, the long
pronounced for twice as long as the short. The diphthongs –
e, ai, o, au – are also long. To simplify the spelling of Sanskrit
words in this glossary we have retained only the long mark (¯)
for the long vowels, omitting the other diacritics sometimes
used to spell Sanskrit words in English.
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