About this tool

भगवद्गीता · व्याकरण-यात्रा

A grammar-first journey through the Bhagavad Gita — built for Sanskrit students who want to learn Vyākaraṇa by doing, one śloka at a time.

What is this?

Most Bhagavad Gita resources hand you a translation. This one hands you the grammar. Every verse is broken down word by word, with explicit kāraka, vibhakti, vachana, dhātu, lakāra, and pratyaya analysis — the moving parts a Sanskrit student actually needs to learn.

Chapters 1–6 are live (235 verses, ~2,900 words analyzed). The chapter you choose opens a verse workspace where each śloka can be explored in three complementary ways.

The three modes

Read

See each word's grammar

The shloka renders with proper anuṣṭubh line-breaks. Below it, every word is laid out in a coloured card — type-coded by noun/pronoun/verb/avyaya — with its pratipadika or dhātu, transliteration, English gloss, full grammatical resolution (e.g., Akāranta · Napuṃsakaliṅga · Saptamī · Ekavachanam), kāraka role, and any insights from the source.

Test

Quiz word-by-word

Tap Begin and the first word lights up. Multiple-choice quizzes drill the specific grammatical features that word exhibits — its case, number, gender, kāraka role for nouns; root, tense-mood, person, voice for verbs. Wrong answers reset for retry. Correct answers slide forward. Tap any word in the shloka to jump straight to it.

Anvaya

Build the prose-order

Sanskrit verse word-order follows meter, not meaning. The anvaya is the prose-order resolution that makes the sentence parseable. This mode walks you through the verse's anvaya — Main sentence, Descriptions, Previous actions — laying out how each piece relates to the others. For seeded verses, an ākāṅkṣā Q-A chain progressively pins each constituent into a growing anvaya banner.

The pedagogical idea

Traditional Sanskrit pedagogy isolates grammar drills from text. You learn śabda-rūpa tables, then much later read a verse. This tool inverts that: the verse comes first, and every grammatical feature you'd memorize in a vyākaraṇa table appears in living context — attached to a word you're actively reading.

The three modes map to three stages of mastery:

  • Read — recognition (passive understanding)
  • Test — recall (active retrieval)
  • Anvaya — composition (reassembling meaning from the parts)

The ākāṅkṣā method in Anvaya mode is a centuries-old Sanskrit teaching device: the teacher asks the student a chain of questions (कः? किम्? कुत्र? कीदृशः?) and each correct answer pins another constituent into the prose sentence. This tool encodes the method in software so a student without a teacher can still practice it.

How to use it

  1. Pick a chapter from the home page.
  2. Use the sidebar to navigate to any verse.
  3. Toggle Read · Test · Anvaya at the top of the verse page. Your progress (which verses you've completed in Test mode) is saved locally and shown as a progress bar on each chapter card.
  4. The sidebar marks each verse with its completion status, so you can see at a glance how far you've come.

Acknowledgements

Word-by-word grammatical analysis is drawn from Grammatical Analysis of Bhagavad Gita by Medhā Michika (Arsha Avinash Foundation) — a remarkable work of pedagogical scholarship. Canonical Devanagari and IAST text are cross-checked against sanskritdocuments.org.

Built and maintained by Anaadi Foundation for Sanskrit students everywhere. Free to use, no account required.

What's next

  • Chapters 7–18 (data parsing in progress).
  • Hand-authored ākāṅkṣā Q-A chains for every verse in Chapter 1, then expanding outward.
  • Mobile app port (iOS / Android) — the architecture is web-first but ready for native wrapping.
  • Audio pronunciation by traditional pandits.
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