Talk:Geeta-Darshan, Bhag 7 (गीता-दर्शन, भाग सात)
About the 1993 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 "450 pages" and "H/E", it is not clear what book type the original 1993 hard copy was; hardcover is assumed based on its long publishing history; and 450 pages may refer to e-book version, not hard copy.
1993 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. The first three vols are dated 1996, 1998 and 1999. Then we have 1992 for Bhags 4 & 5, 1999 again for Bhag 6 and now 1993 again for Bhag 7. Meanwhile, all seven vols in the Jain Library collection have 1996 in their JL info sheets accompanying the pdfs. We might well consider that these dates are not solid.
About the ISBN 8172610963, this was not explicitly found in the colophon or back cover, or anywhere. It is merely assumed, on the basis of Bhags 1, 2, 3 and 6; ie their late 90's ISBNs were explicitly found in the usual places and were the same as the corresponding 2003 Rebel edition ISBNs. It is possible that, being published allegedly in 1993, before the late 90's ones, it didn't have an ISBN, or it just wasn't put in this copy/edition. Bhags 4 & 5 are in the same boat. Thus, these out-of-order 1992's and 1993's may acquire some justification via the lack of ISBN.
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 7 and introduced the e-book cover image as the 2003 cover.
About the wiki having first editions for every Bhag of the Gita Darshan mega-series being published in 1971, with subsequent editions 1973 reprinted 1977 (this even for talks given in 1975 (Bhag 8)): The source for this (mis-)info is unknown but is most likely a robotic copy-paste of what might have been true for Bhag 1. -- doofus-9 22:56, 12 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 17:46, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
The ISBN is not at a page with publication information, but is on Back Cover, see image of main page of this vol. This is 81-7261-096-8, incorrect check digit.
Interesting fact that Jain Library on her website has vols 1-7 by Rebel for which year of publishing mentioned as 1996 for all 1-7 Volumes --DhyanAntar 08:30, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
