श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता
Bhagavad Gītā
The Song of the Lord, on the field at Kurukṣetra
Two armies face each other. A warrior lowers his bow and will not fight.
What follows is the Lord's answer to one human despair, set down by Vyāsa in seven hundred and one verses.
701 ślokas · 19 commentaries · 7 translations · audio in 3 voices
Sanskrit, IAST, word-by-word, and audio mirrored from the Gītā Supersite, IIT Kanpur
Each a Yoga, Each a Door
A note on the bhāṣya-mālā
Every śloka opens onto a reading desk. Three classical bhāṣyas sit beside the verse by default, Śaṅkara, Rāmānuja, Madhva. Sixteen other voices are a tap away, spanning every major Vedānta school, Kashmir Śaiva, Marathi bhakti through Jñāneśvarī, and modern commentary from Swami Sivananda to Sri Aurobindo. The Gītā has never been read by one voice; this desk does not pretend otherwise.
19 of 24 sages available, the rest in progress
For more than a thousand years the schools of Vedānta have read this text against one another. The Reading Desk lets you do the same: any three of these voices, on any verse, in Sanskrit or English, side by side.
The roster is still being populated. Voices marked pending will join the desk as their ingestion completes.