Sources, credits & licenses
Vedaangan only uses texts that are in the public domain or clearly licensed. Every verse in our data records its source and license. This prototype contains 701 Bhagavad Gita verses, plus Vedas, Mantras, Puranas and Bhakti songs (sources below).
Created by Snehal Prashant.
The Bhagavad-Gita, or The Lord's Song — with the text in Devanagari and an English translation (4th edition)
License: Public domain
Translator: Annie Besant (1847–1933)
Published: G. A. Natesan & Co., Madras, 1922 (translation first published 1895)
- Sanskrit text of the Bhagavad Gita: ancient work, public domain everywhere.
- Besant translation: published 1895/1922 (before 1931) -> public domain in the USA.
- Annie Besant died in 1933 -> public domain in India since 1 Jan 1994 (Indian Copyright Act: author's life + 60 years) and in all life+70/life+80/life+90 countries.
- Wikisource marks this work as public domain. A faithful transcription of a public-domain book adds no new copyright; we still credit Wikisource and its volunteers.
Most pages are marked 'proofread' (level 3) on Wikisource, some 'validated' (level 4). Small OCR/transcription errors are possible; each verse links to its scanned page.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bhagavad-Gita_(Besant_4th)IAST transliteration generated from the Devanagari text
License: Generated automatically from public-domain text (no third-party copyright)
Tool: @indic-transliteration/sanscript (npm) (MIT)
Machine transliteration: follows the Devanagari exactly (sandhi kept, no word splitting).
https://github.com/indic-transliteration/sanscript.jsVedas, Mantras, Puranas & Bhakti songs
Original texts are ancient or medieval works in the public domain. We take the digital text from Wikisource (CC BY-SA 4.0 — thank you, Wikisource contributors) and English only from public-domain translations. Each item page lists its exact pages and links. Not used: GRETIL and sanskritdocuments.org (their terms do not allow our use), and modern copyrighted translations or commentaries.
Sanskrit Wikisource (sa.wikisource.org)
License: Text: ancient work, public domain. Digital edition: Wikisource, CC BY-SA 4.0 (attribution: Wikisource contributors).
The Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. Ralph T. H. Griffith (1889–1896)
License: Public domain (Griffith died 1906; published before 1931). Wikisource marks it PD-old.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Hymns_of_the_RigvedaThe Texts of the White Yajurveda, tr. Ralph T. H. Griffith (1899)
License: Public domain (Griffith died 1906; published 1899).
https://archive.org/details/textswhiteyajur01grifgoogThe Upanishads, Part II (Sacred Books of the East vol. 15), tr. F. Max Müller (Oxford, 1884)
License: Public domain (Müller died 1900; published 1884).
https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.6926Taittiriya Upanishad, tr. F. Max Müller (1884) — English Wikisource
License: Public domain (PD-old per Wikisource).
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Taittiriya_UpanishadVâgasaneyi-samhitâ-upanishad (Îsâ), tr. F. Max Müller, Sacred Books of the East vol. 1 (1879) — English Wikisource
License: Public domain (Müller died 1900; published 1879).
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sacred_Books_of_the_East/Volume_1/V%C3%A2gasaneyi-samhit%C3%A2-upanishadThe Vishnu Purana, tr. H. H. Wilson (1840), ed. Fitzedward Hall, vol. 1 (Trübner, London, 1864)
License: Public domain (Wilson died 1860, Hall died 1901).
https://archive.org/details/TheVishnuPuranaVolIहिंदी भाषा और उसके साहित्य का विकास — अयोध्या सिंह उपाध्याय 'हरिऔध' (Hindi Wikisource)
License: Poems: 15th–16th c., public domain. Book: Hariaudh died 1947 → public domain in India; Hindi Wikisource marks it PD-1996. Digital edition CC BY-SA 4.0.
https://hi.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%94%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8कबीर ग्रन्थावली, ed. Shyamsundar Das (Hindi Wikisource)
License: Kabir's verses: 15th c., public domain. Editor Shyamsundar Das died 1945 → PD in India. Hindi Wikisource marks the book PD-1996; CC BY-SA 4.0 digital edition. We use only Kabir's verse text, not the commentary printed with it.
https://hi.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80रामचरितमानस, Belvedere Press, Prayag, 1925 (Hindi Wikisource)
License: Tulsidas's text: 16th c., public domain. Wikisource marks this 1925 edition PD-1996; CC BY-SA 4.0 digital edition. We use only Tulsidas's original lines, not the 1925 commentary.
https://hi.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B8Simple Hindi meanings (सरल भावार्थ)
The simple Hindi meanings and summaries are our own AI-assisted drafts, written only from the public-domain sources named on each page (for the Gita: Gandhi's Anasaktiyoga, 1929, and Besant's English). They are marked “draft, under review” until a knowledgeable person has checked them.
Puja Vidhi: steps and mantras come only from public-domain texts — the Vratarāja of Viśvanātha Śarmā (Khemraj Shrikrishnadas, Bombay, 1897; scan on archive.org, CC0) for Hartalika Teej, and the Sanskrit Satyanārāyaṇa-vrata-kathā on Sanskrit Wikisource (CC BY-SA 4.0) for Satyanarayan. Every step cites its page. We do not write puja steps ourselves. Verified by a priest: pending — please follow your family/local tradition.
Puja Vidhi sources
Fonts & audio
Fonts: Noto Sans, Noto Sans Devanagari and Noto Serif Devanagari by Google — SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Audio: Hindi audio of the simple meanings (Gita chapters 1 and 2, mantras, puja vidhi steps and kathas, Vedic hymns, Purana stories and bhakti songs, where available) is generated with the AI voice model Indic Parler-TTS by AI4Bharat (Apache-2.0). Sanskrit chanting (real human recordings from Wikimedia Commons) is available for Bhagavad Gita chapters 2 and 3, the Gayatri and Mahamrityunjaya mantras, the Ganapati Suktam and the Purusha Suktam; credits for each recording are on the Sources & credits page. Sanskrit audio for the other texts is coming soon.
Not used: modern copyrighted translations and commentaries (for example the ones bundled in some GitHub Gita datasets) are deliberately not included.