"If, O Janārdana, discernment be held by thee more excellent than work, then why, O Keśava, dost thou set me to do a work of violence?"
About W. Douglas P. Hill
William Douglas Penneck Hill was a British Indologist, a scholar of King's College, Cambridge, former assistant master at Eton and principal of Jay Narayan's High School Benares. He is noted for his English commentary and scholarly translation of the Bhagavad Gita.
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