Talk:Geeta-Darshan, Bhag 3 (गीता-दर्शन, भाग तीन)
About the 1999 edition: It looks authentic, source is Jain Library, an online free library with audio and high-quality e-books. Themes are mostly Jain-related, eg Osho's talks on Mahavir but they have seven volumes of Gita Darshan. About "488 pages" and "H/E", it is not clear what book type the original 1999 hard copy was; hardcover is assumed based on its long publishing history; and 488 pages may refer to e-book version, not hard copy.
1999 is the pub date given in the colophon, presumably faithful to the hard copy. But there is a fair bit of date drift in these Jain Library Gita Darshan volumes. So far, we have 1996, 1998 and 1999 for the first three vols, sort of drifting in the direction of the Rebel 2003 edition for all of them and so we have to wonder. Then, peeking ahead, we will find 1992 for Bhag 4, which is sort of bizarre. Stops the drift toward 2003 but wtf? And meanwhile, all four (so far) have 1996 in the Jain Library info sheets accompanying the pdfs. We might well consider that these dates are not solid.
About the pic for the 2003 edition: none was supplied previously. Since the e-book based on the 1996 Bhag 1 hard copy has the same cover image as the 2003 edition of Bhag 1, i have assumed a parallelism for Bhag 3 and introduced the e-book cover image as the 2003 cover.
Peeking ahead in the wiki's already "known" date data for earlier editions, we see a consistent pattern of first editions published in 1971, even for talks given in 1975 (Bhag 8), with the next editions 1973 reprinted 1977, also for Bhags 1-8. As far as Bhag 3 is concerned, the 1971 first pub date is still remotely possible but very unlikely and for later Bhags, out of the question. Thus, the whole pattern of these repeated pub dates looks like at best a robotic repetition of what might have been true for Bhag 1. -- doofus-9 18:33, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
- Nov 2018 update: Info relating to editions from the 70s previously assumed to be earlier editions of this volume has been removed. -- doofus-9 08:14, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
