Where to read the Gita and other scriptures online
Wisdom is one way in. These are the other sites we open when we want the Sanskrit, a classical commentary or a teacher’s voice. All of them are free to read.
Every site here shows the original text or names its translator, and none of them charges you to read scripture. We checked each link on 29 October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed.
- The Bhagavad Gita with commentaries
- Upanishads, Ramayana and the wider library
- Sanskrit dictionaries and text archives
- Teachers and study
- If you are new to Hindu thought
- Suggest a site
- Link to Wisdom
The Bhagavad Gita with commentaries
- Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpurheritage.iitk.ac.in
The verse with classical commentaries side by side: Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva and others, in Sanskrit, Hindi and English. Open it when you want to see how the acharyas read a line.
- Bhagavad Gita, Vande Mataram Library Trustbhagavadgita.org.in
Word meanings and grammar for every verse, with Sanskrit grammar tools alongside. For anyone reading the Sanskrit itself.
- Vedabasevedabase.io
Bhagavad-gita As It Is by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, with word-for-word Sanskrit and purports in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition.
- Holy Bhagavad Gitaholy-bhagavad-gita.org
Swami Mukundananda’s verse-by-verse translation and commentary, with each shloka recited.
Upanishads, Ramayana and the wider library
- Upanishads, Vande Mataram Library Trustupanishads.org.in
Major and minor Upanishads with word meanings, a glossary, stories and characters, and Sri Aurobindo’s commentaries on the Isha and Kena.
- Heritage IIT Kanpurheritage.iitk.ac.in
The same IIT Kanpur library beyond the Gita: Valmiki Ramayana, Yoga Sutras and Yoga Vasishtha, with translations and commentaries.
- Internet Sacred Text Archivesacred-texts.com
Complete public-domain English translations: Griffith’s Vedas, Ganguli’s Mahabharata, Max Müller’s Upanishads. The English is old, the texts are whole.
- Swami Krishnanandaswami-krishnananda.org
Long, careful talks on the Upanishads and the Gita by a Divine Life Society monk, free as ebooks and audio.
Sanskrit dictionaries and text archives
- Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionariessanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de
Monier-Williams, Apte and other dictionaries, searchable from Sanskrit or English.
- Wisdom Librarywisdomlib.org
What a Sanskrit term means across Hindu, Buddhist and Jain texts, with the passages it comes from.
- Sanskrit Documentssanskritdocuments.org
Stotras, Gitas and texts in Devanagari and transliteration, kept up by volunteers.
- GRETIL, University of Göttingengretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de
The scholarly register of Sanskrit e-texts. Plain files, very wide coverage.
- Sanskrit Resources Hubhub.sanskrit.today
A maintained directory of Sanskrit courses, dictionaries and text sites.
Teachers and study
- Arsha Bodha Centerarshabodha.org
Swami Tadatmananda’s free classes on the Gita, the Upanishads and Sanskrit, in the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Swami Dayananda.
- Chinmaya Missionchinmayamission.com
Gita study groups and classes in many cities, in India and abroad, started by Swami Chinmayananda.
- The Divine Life Societydlshq.org
Swami Sivananda’s ashram in Rishikesh, with many of his books on the Gita and yoga online.
- Advaita Visionadvaita-vision.org
Dennis Waite’s site on traditional Advaita: articles, questions and answers, and book reviews.
- Hinduwebsite.comhinduwebsite.com
Jayaram V’s essays on Hindu philosophy, written since 1999, and his own translation of the Gita.
If you are new to Hindu thought
- Hindu Dharma 101s, Hindu American Foundationhinduamerican.org
Short, plain introductions to ideas, practices and festivals, written for students and teachers.
How we choose
- You can read the scripture free, without signing up.
- It shows the Sanskrit, or names the translator and edition it uses.
- Someone still looks after it, and the links work.
- It helps you read the text closely, whatever school it comes from.
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Link to Wisdom
If you keep a list like this one for your students, sangha or readers, these are the Wisdom pages people find most useful:
- The Bhagavad Gita, all 700 verses · One page per verse: Sanskrit, word-by-word meaning, Hindi and English.
- भगवद गीता हिंदी में · The same verses with Hindi meaning.
- Read the Gita in 18 days · One chapter a day, finishing on Gita Jayanti.
- 7-verse reading plans · Short plans for overthinking, grief, comparison, living far from home and more.
- Most searched Gita verses in 2026 · Google Trends and Search Console data. The dataset is CC BY 4.0.
Copy this to link to the verse-by-verse Gita:
<a href="https://wisdomquotes.in/gita">Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit, Hindi and English, verse by verse (Wisdom)</a>The translations are the Wisdom edition, edited by Ankur Shukla. The commentary on verse pages is drafted with a language model and reviewed by hand. The methodology page explains how, and how to report a mistake.