Google Play
“…This young boy presented the app in our Gita class and held the audience spellbound.”
Partner
What is built, what is next, and what is needed.
For investors and institutional partners considering GitaVardhan, the GitaVardhan Devices, and the Kannada, Tamil and Telugu Vardhan language work.
What is built
Four applications, two hardware devices, a third in progress.
GitaVardhan, live on the App Store and Google Play. Kannada Vardhan, live on both. Tamil Vardhan and Telugu Vardhan, live on Google Play with iOS coming soon. Two working hardware readers, an e-ink build and a touchscreen build, with a third device under way.
What people are saying
Rated highly on both stores.
A 4.917 out of 5 rating on Google Play, and a 5 out of 5 rating on the App Store, as of August 2026. A selection of reviews below, quoted as written.
App Store
“An exceptional app for anyone who wants to study the Bhagavad Gita in a simple, meaningful and engaging way. The content is thoughtfully presented, easy to navigate, and inspires both beginners and lifelong learners…”
Google Play
“Very soothing meditative voice. Excellent for early morning Sravanam.”
Google Play
“Fantastic app with a wealth of relevant data on the Bhagavad Gita for a novice to an expert. Well conceptualised and designed, easy to use too…”
What is needed
Four ways to take this further.
One
Hardware manufacturing funding
To take the GitaVardhan Devices from two hand built units to a small production run.
Two
Robotics research and development
To carry the robotics work past the prototype bench. See below.
Three
A CSR or foundation partnership
To place the devices in schools and Sanskrit institutions.
Four
A distribution partnership
With Sanskrit universities, to carry the apps and the devices further than one family can alone.
Robotics
The prototypes exist. The bench is the limit.
The same hands that built the two Gītā readers have been building robotics prototypes, on the same principle: buy the cheapest parts that will do the job, wire them by hand, and write the firmware yourself.
- Sensing
- Working prototypes using thermal, LiDAR and inertial measurement unit sensors, read and fused on the microcontroller rather than off device
- Actuation
- Servo and stepper driven robotic arms, driven by voice command, built on the same on device speech recognition as the GitaVardhan readers
- Method
- Designed, wired and coded by him, in C and Python, on breadboard before anything is committed to a board
- What funding buys
- Better sensors and actuators than pocket money reaches, a proper bench, and the fabrication to turn a working breadboard into something that can be handed to somebody else
He intends to become a research scientist, in nuclear fusion and space technology. The robotics work is where that starts.
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