Gita web app with many English, Hindi and Sanskrit translations and commentaries: Project status in non-technical language

Quick Info

Work done

Gita frontend app with only Swami Sivananda translation and commentary is live at  https://gita-test.vercel.app/.

Gita data: translations and commentaries

  • Translations from 5 English and 2 Hindi translators
  • Commentaries from 13 Sanskrit, 2 Hindi and 1 English commentators

Next task to be done

Upgrade Gita frontend app to:
  • Give user choice for translators and commentators
  • Show translations and commentaries for all selected translators and commentators.
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Details

The open source gita data repository provided by another group - https://github.com/gita/gita - but free for anybody to reuse, has:
  • For all 701 Bhagavad Gita verses
    • Sanskrit verse text
    • English meanings of Sanskrit words in verse (transliteration)
    • Translations in English and Hindi
    • Commentaries in Sanskrit, English and Hindi.
  • For all 18 chapters of Bhagavad Gita
    • Chapter summaries in English and Hindi 

Translations

5 English translators

  1. Swami Adidevananda
  2. Swami Gambirananda
  3. Swami Sivananda
  4. Dr. S. Sankaranarayan
  5. Shri Purohit Swami

2 Hindi translators

  1. Swami Ramsukhdas
  2. Swami Tejomayananda

Commentaries

13 Sanskrit commentators

  1. Sri Anandgiri
  2. Sri Dhanpati
  3. Sri Madhavacharya
  4. Sri Neelkanth
  5. Sri Ramanujacharya
  6. Sri Sridhara Swami
  7. Sri Vedantadeshikacharya Venkatanatha
  8. Sri Abhinavgupta
  9. Sri Jayatritha
  10. Sri Madhusudan Saraswati
  11. Sri Purushottamji
  12. Sri Shankaracharya
  13. Sri Vallabhacharya

1 English commentator

  1. Swami Sivananda

2 Hindi commentators

  1. Swami Ramsukhdas
  2. Swami Chinmayananda
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Work done

First work I have done is that all the above data is now available as Gita Static JSON files API hosted on GitHub Pages. This JSON files API is free for anybody to access and does not need any API key. Note that such data is accessed by other programs which typically show the data to the user with a nice visual interface. Associated GitHub repo: https://github.com/ravisiyer/gita-data 

As part of above work, Gita frontend app version with only Swami Sivananda translation and commentary that uses above gita-data JSON API is live at: https://gita-test.vercel.app/.

Next task to be done

The next task is to have Gita frontend app version which will give user choice for translators and commentators and show translations and commentaries for all selected translators and commentators.

Project technical status

Project paused waiting for sponsor for next task

As of now, I do not have a sponsor for the next task. If there are persons who are interesed in sponsoring the next task's first step of work (done by me at deeply discounted rates), they may please mail me at riyer02@gmail.com. But dear reader, please don't feel obliged in any way to sponsor such work. Sponsor(s) should contact me in this regard, only if they are really interested in patronizing such service to society type work. I am doing this project in a spiritually detached way (nishkama bhava). So if no sponsor(s) are interested for second chunk of work - no problem at all. The important thing for me is to make the offer. Then I feel I have done my bit.

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