About AskGita
AskGita is a free, complete reference to the Bhagavad Gita — all 700 shlokas across 18 chapters, each with the original Sanskrit, IAST transliteration, word-by-word meaning, and full English & Hindi translation, alongside commentary and topic-wise guides for everyday life.
What you’ll find
- • All 700 verses of the Bhagavad Gita, in English and Hindi.
- • Sanskrit with transliteration and word-by-word meaning for each verse.
- • 72 topic guides applying the Gita to real situations — anxiety, dharma, grief, work, relationships and more.
- • Search across every shloka, and a guide that answers life questions with the exact verses cited.
Sources & method
Accuracy with the scripture comes first. The Sanskrit is taken only from authoritative editions and is never altered; verses still awaiting verification are kept out of search results rather than published unverified.
- Sanskrit text
- Reproduced from authoritative editions of the Bhagavad Gita. The Devanagari and transliteration are never paraphrased or auto-generated — only verified source text is published.
- English translation
- Based on the translation of Swami Sivananda (The Divine Life Society).
- Hindi translation
- Based on the translation of Swami Ramsukhdas (Gita Press, Gorakhpur).
- Commentary
- Explanatory commentary is synthesised from classical and modern sources — the Bhāṣya of Adi Shankaracharya, and the commentaries of Swami Chinmayananda, Swami Vivekananda and Swami Prabhupada (Gita Press, Gorakhpur).