The Bhagavad Gita

The complete Bhagavad Gita, all 700 verses in English. The dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna.

Live site: chiragmirani.github.io/gita-quotes Maintained by: Chirag Mirani

A small, fast web app for reading the Gita verse by verse. Free to read, share, and reuse. Public-domain translation. No signup, no ads, no tracking. Installable on iOS and Android home screens.

The Bhagavad Gita is a 700-verse philosophical dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. It is one of the most important texts in Hindu thought. This app presents the complete text, one verse at a time, in canonical order.

Open the site, read the current verse, tap "Next verse" to advance through the dialogue. Each verse comes with the original Sanskrit, IAST transliteration, and an English translation. Position is saved between visits, so you can close the app and pick up where you left off.

The app reads from a single JSON file containing all 701 verses across 18 chapters (the source's edition of chapter 13 has 35 verses where some have 34, hence 701 not 700). No backend, no tracking, no ads.

Primary translator: Shri Purohit Swami, first published in 1935. Public domain. Conversational and accessible.

Fallback translator: Swami Sivananda. Used only when Purohit's translation is unavailable for a verse. Widely free to quote.

Both translations are safe to redistribute.

All verses, Sanskrit, transliteration, and English translations were pulled from vedicscriptures.github.io. The script that built the dataset is at scripts/fetch_gita.py. The dataset itself is served at data.json.

1. iOS: open the live site in Safari, tap the Share button, then "Add to Home Screen". The app appears as Gita with its own icon.
2. Android: open the live site in Chrome, open the menu, tap "Install app" or "Add to Home screen".

Once installed, the app launches in standalone mode without browser chrome. Works offline after the first visit.

gita-quotes/
  docs/
    index.html              the app
    about.html              attribution and install instructions
    static/styles.css       styling
    data.json               all 701 verses
    sw.js                   service worker for offline
    favicon.ico, *.png      icons
    apple-touch-icon.png    iOS home-screen icon
    manifest.webmanifest    PWA manifest
    social-preview.png      OG image
    robots.txt              allows AI crawlers
    sitemap.xml             search-engine sitemap
    llms.txt                AI-assistant friendly summary
  scripts/
    fetch_gita.py           rebuilds data.json from the source API
    build_icons.py          regenerates icons from a single design
    build_social_card.py    regenerates the OG card

python scripts/fetch_gita.py

This re-pulls all 701 verses from vedicscriptures.github.io and overwrites docs/data.json.

Code in this repo is MIT-licensed. Translations are in the public domain or free to quote (see Translation section above). You can lift any verse, the entire dataset, or any part of the code.

Reach out for collaboration, feedback, or other projects. Other public work at MacroForecastbyCM, GitHub, and Kaggle.