About
Preserving the word, widening the door.
Sanatani is an open scripture reader that brings the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and other sacred Sanskrit texts into a multilingual, carefully structured reading experience — so that anyone, anywhere, can sit with these works and understand them.
तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय
"Lead me from darkness to light" — Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28. The oldest prayer for understanding, and the impulse behind this project.
The Reader
A multilingual scripture reader
Sanatani presents Sanskrit originals alongside IAST transliteration, English translation, Hindi translation, and scholarly commentary — layered together so you can move between languages without losing your place in the text.
The Approach
Faithful to the source, structured for study
Every verse is encoded in Grantha, a purpose-built markup language that preserves verse type, metre, speaker attribution, and commentary lineage. The result is a reading experience that honours the structure of each scripture rather than flattening it into a wall of text.
The Audience
For anyone drawn to the texts
Whether you are a student encountering the Gita for the first time, a practitioner deepening a daily reading, or a scholar cross-referencing commentaries — the same careful presentation serves all three. No prior Sanskrit knowledge is required; no ceiling is imposed on those who have it.