For iPhone · coming soon
The Gita, one shloka at a time.
One verse fills the screen. Swipe up for the next. Tap any Sanskrit word and its meaning appears right above it.
Tap an underlined word
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Scroll
Each screen holds one shloka, so the verse gets your full attention. Swipe up and the next one arrives. All 700 verses, across 18 chapters.
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Tap
Every word of the Sanskrit is underlined. Tap one to see what it means. Where several words have fused into one sound, which happens all the time in Sanskrit, you see each of them.
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Understand
Open the full meaning under the verse, in English or Hindi. Every translation is our own, written fresh from the Sanskrit, not copied from a published edition.
Action is yours to do; its results are never yours to claim. Do not make the reward your reason for acting, and do not grow attached to doing nothing.
Englishहिन्दी
Script and language are separate
The same Sanskrit, in the letters you read.
Show the original in Devanagari, Roman, Tamil or Telugu script. The meanings stay in your language. Change either one any time from the top of the feed.
- Devanagari देवनागरीकर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन ।
- Roman (IAST)karmaṇyevādhikāraste mā phaleṣu kadācana |
- Tamil script தமிழ்கர்மண்யேவாதி⁴காரஸ்தே மா ப²லேஷு கதா³சந ।
- Telugu script తెలుగుకర్మణ్యేవాధికారస్తే మా ఫలేషు కదాచన ।
In the works
Next: the Hanuman Chalisa
श्रीगुरु चरन सरोज रज
निज मनु मुकुरु सुधारि
The same one-verse-at-a-time reading, with every word explained, for the forty chaupais. It will be the second feed in the app, after the Gita.
Coming soon to iPhone
Android will follow. No account needed: open the app and start reading.
This opens your email app with a short note to support@shlokascroll.com. We’ll write back once, when the app is live.