Corrections, and a note of respect

Every verse of Devanagari on this site comes from a published digital edition through an automated process. Nobody retypes it, because retyping is how errors get introduced.

Each verse is then checked two ways. It is compared against two further independent sources, and it is checked against the rules of the script itself — certain character sequences are simply impossible in Devanagari, and those are caught automatically. Every verse published here has passed both checks, and the site cannot be rebuilt if any verse fails them.

This is not a formality. The original dataset turned out to contain 58 corrupted verses, and all of them were found and fixed this way. The chapter names and the title were checked against the same sources rather than trusted because they looked right.

Automated checks can prove that a verse matches its sources and that the script is well-formed. They cannot prove that every word is the right word. Editions of the Gita genuinely differ from one another in places, and reasonable scholars read some lines differently.

So errors remain possible — in the Devanagari, in the transliteration, in the English translation, or in the commentary. If you find one, it is a mistake and not a statement of belief.

Write to corrections@gitaexplained.com. Pointing at the chapter and verse is enough; you do not need to explain the grammar unless you want to.

Reports about the Sanskrit are treated as urgent. Anything confirmed is corrected at the source, which means it is fixed everywhere on the site at once and cannot quietly come back later.

The explanations here are one careful reading. They do not speak for any tradition, teacher, lineage or school, and they carry no authority beyond the care taken in writing them. They are not a substitute for study with someone who knows this text properly.

Where the great commentators genuinely disagree — and on some verses they disagree deeply — this edition says so plainly instead of quietly choosing a side and presenting it as settled. Verse 18.66 is the clearest example.

The English translations are original to this edition rather than borrowed, so the wording is a choice, and another translator would choose differently. Where a line is contested, that is noted rather than hidden.

Nothing on this site is intended to offend, to misrepresent anyone’s faith, or to treat what is sacred as casual. If something here causes hurt — a wrong character, a clumsy phrase, an explanation that misses what a verse means to you — that was never the intention, and we are sorry for it.

Tell us, and it will be put right. That is a better outcome than silence, and it is genuinely welcome.