About Sanskrit

Sanskrit is a free site for the first steps in the Sanskrit language, written for people who read Hindi. It has eight grammar pages with the standard tables, 60 simple spoken sentences, 76 words by topic, 36 shlokas of the Bhagavad Gita with meaning in Hindi and English, and three guides.

Where the content comes from

• The Sanskrit text of the shlokas is the text of the Bhagavad Gita, an ancient work in the public domain. We did not type it from memory. It was copied by a program, on 12 November 2026, from the transcription on Sanskrit Wikisource (sa.wikisource.org, pages "भगवद्गीता/..." for each chapter). The program found all 700 verses in the 18 chapters, with the verse count of every chapter matching the commonly printed text, and the verses shown here are copied from it unchanged. Wikisource is a volunteer project and its text is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; the verses themselves are much older than any copyright.
• The verses have not yet been compared, letter by letter, with a printed critical edition. A transcription can contain typing slips. If you intend to recite or print a verse, please check it against a printed edition of the Gita, and tell us if you find a difference.
• The meanings in Hindi and English and the notes are our own, written in plain words to give the direct sense of the Sanskrit. They are not taken from any published translation or commentary, and they do not follow any one school of interpretation.
• The roman reading under each verse and sentence is produced by a rule-based program from the Devanagari. It is a reading aid, not a scholarly transliteration.
• The grammar tables (the declensions of rama, lata and phala, the pronouns, the verb path in five lakaras, sandhi, numbers and avyayas) are the standard school grammar of Sanskrit, set out by us. The sentences and word lists are our own, in the simple spoken Sanskrit taught in schools.

Limits you should know

No Sanskrit teacher or scholar has yet checked this site. We have taken care, but a table of this kind is easy to mistype, and a reader who knows Sanskrit may find slips. The grammar is given in its simplest form, without exceptions. This is a companion for beginners, not a substitute for a textbook and a teacher. On verses that the different traditions explain differently, we give only the plain meaning of the words.

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