INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Charles Wilkins was an English typographer and Orientalist, and founding member of The Asiatic Society. He is famous in history because he was the first translator of Bhagawat Gita into English. It was published in 1785 and is commonly known as Wilkin’s Gita.

Detailed explanation-2: -Detailed Solution. A prominent Orientalist and avid typographer Sir Charles Wilkins was a pioneer in the study of Sanskrit and he was first European to translate Bhagavad Gita into English.

Detailed explanation-3: -More excerpts from the Gita were then translated directly from the Sanskrit by Friedrich Schlegel in 1808, appearing in the appendix to Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Inder.

Detailed explanation-4: -The gita in the title of the Bhagavad Gita means “song.” Religious leaders and scholars interpret the word Bhagavad in a number of ways. Accordingly, the title has been interpreted as “the word of God” by the theistic schools, “the words of the Lord", “the Divine Song", and “Celestial Song” by others.

Detailed explanation-5: -His great-grandson Dara Shikoh continued the efforts. Dara translated the Upanishads and the Bhagavad-gita into Persian.