About this edition
The text & the paintings
A complete, parallel reading
All eighteen chapters are presented in Sanskrit transliteration and English. Chapters 1–10 and 12–18 use Annie Besant’s English translation, fourth edition (1922), a public-domain work transcribed at Wikisource. Its period language has been retained. Chapter 11 preserves the separately supplied Sanskrit and English text with which this collection began.
The Sanskrit transliteration, chapter headings, closing formulas, and verse numbering follow Vaidika Vignanam, the edition selected for this collection. Each chapter links to its corresponding source page. Its pronunciation-oriented transliteration and joined Sanskrit words are retained. The source snapshot was retrieved on September 8, 2026. Vignanam’s “English” pages provide Roman-script Sanskrit; the parallel English translations are separately sourced as described above.
Chapter 13 follows Vignanam’s 34-verse numbering, giving the collection 700 verses. Besant’s edition includes an additional opening question from Arjuna, so its English verses 2–35 are aligned here with Sanskrit verses 1–34. No verse from the selected Vignanam edition is omitted.
Supplementary lexical reference data comes from the gita/gita dataset, published under the Unlicense. Its word meanings are aligned with Vignanam’s joined words; they do not replace the selected Sanskrit text. Narrow transcription repairs address malformed lexical separators and English verse labels in the imported references.
Word readings
Tap or hover over Sanskrit to see lexical meaning and a reading note. Sanskrit sound-combination can join several grammatical words; where a reading concerns a longer expression, that expression is identified. English wording glows when a corresponding phrase is available. A translation may absorb a particle or phrase into a larger sentence, so not every word has a separate highlighted English equivalent.
The contextual notes are original, AI-assisted editorial reading aids. They are not quotations from a traditional commentary and are not a substitute for study with a qualified teacher. All word readings are prepared in advance and delivered with the page; interacting with a verse does not make a language-model request.
Eighteen painted chapter images
Each chapter has its own AI-generated painting, composed around an episode, image, or teaching from that chapter. They share the soft gold, umber, and celestial light of the original Chapter 11 painting. Some scenes are symbolic interpretations rather than literal depictions of an event in the dialogue.