Shloka Scroll is built on the work of scholars and type designers. This page lists every third-party source the app uses, with its licence.
Sanskrit text and grammatical analysis
Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS), by Oliver Hellwig. Sanskrit segmentation, lemmas and grammar: Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS), Oliver Hellwig, CC BY 4.0, https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit
- Citation: Hellwig, Oliver: The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS), 2010–2024.
- Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Version used: repository commit
8aeed5a(24 August 2026), Bhagavad Gītā chapters 1–18. - Changes we made: we rebuilt the verse text and verse mapping where DCS stores verses pre-split; added a missing half-verse (2.21) and missing words (13.11, 13.17); corrected a segmentation error that dropped a negation (4.21); added speaker lines (1.21, 1.24, 1.28, 1.47); in 24 places used the widely printed vulgate reading instead of DCS's critical-edition reading; repaired three lemma encodings; and transliterated the text into IAST, Tamil and Telugu scripts. These changes are ours. The DCS and its author do not endorse Shloka Scroll.
The Sanskrit text of the Bhagavad Gītā itself is ancient and in the public domain. We follow the 700-verse text with Śaṅkara's numbering. We checked it verse by verse against the Sanskrit Wikisource edition of the Gītā (https://sa.wikisource.org/), and only the public-domain verse text was used for that check.
Translations and word meanings
The English and Hindi translations and word-by-word meanings in Shloka Scroll are our own. They are written fresh from the Sanskrit and the DCS grammatical analysis, with AI assistance. They are in beta: review by human Sanskrit and Hindi reviewers is under way, and translations marked "Beta" in the app haven't finished review yet. Corrections are welcome through Suggest a correction in the app.
We do not use, and did not consult, any modern copyrighted translation or commentary.
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Fonts
| Font | Designer | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit, Tiro Devanagari Hindi, Tiro Tamil, Tiro Telugu | Tiro Typeworks (© 2020 The Indigo Project Authors, https://github.com/TiroTypeworks/Indigo) | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| Mukta | Girish Dalvi, Ek Type (© 2014) | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
The SIL Open Font License is at https://openfontlicense.org. The fonts are bundled in the app and on this website, so nothing loads from a third-party font service.
Artwork
The app icon (a peacock-feather eye) and the wordmark are original artwork made for Shloka Scroll. Any AI-generated artwork used in our videos is labelled as AI-generated.