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The Bhagavad Gita, the Valmiki Ramayana, the Critical Edition of the Mahabharata and the Rigveda in Sanskrit, with a transliteration for every verse. Translations shown here are in the public domain, and our own meanings appear only after a scholar has reviewed them.

  • Bhagavad Gita

    701 verses · 18 chapters

    Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

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  • Valmiki Ramayana

    22,681 verses · 636 chapters

    Kanda.sarga.shloka as numbered in DharmicData (source: svenkatreddy/Ramayana_Book). Numbers can differ from the Gita Press edition by a few verses.

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  • Mahabharata

    73,816 verses · 1,995 chapters

    Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Critical Edition, parva.adhyaya.shloka.

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  • Rigveda

    10,189 verses · 1,003 chapters

    Shakala Samhita, mandala.sukta.rk, with svara marks. Each sukta opens with its rishi, devata and chandas.

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