Vrishvardhan Sharma वृषवर्धनः शर्मा

Application iOS and Android Free

The whole गीता, in thirteen languages, in his own voice.

Seven hundred verses, each with an audio recitation recorded by a boy who knows them all by heart, and the commentaries of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya and Rāmānujācārya alongside. It works with the aeroplane mode on. There is no advertising, no tracking, and nothing to pay.

The GitaVardhan app icon: a peacock feather, a flute and a conch inside a lit circle.

What is inside

Built to be used, not to be marketed.

Text
The complete Śrīmad Bhagavad Gītā, all seven hundred verses
Languages
Thirteen Indian languages
Commentary
The bhāṣyas of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya and Rāmānujācārya
Audio
Every śloka recited in Vrishvardhan's own voice
Learner module
For committing verses to memory
Connection
None needed. Fully offline once installed
Cost
Free. No advertising, no tracking, no subscription
The GitaVardhan card: the app name set in thirteen Indian scripts around the icon, with App Store and Google Play QR codes.
The name set in each of the scripts the app carries. Conceptualised, designed and developed by Vrishvardhan Sharma.

Thirteen languages

One name, written thirteen ways.

A reader in Bengaluru, Chennai, Ahmedabad or Guwahati opens the same application and finds the Gītā in the script they read in. That is the whole intent: the text is one, the doors into it are many.

On film

Walk through it, and see how it was made.

Then the hardware

The same text, with no phone at all.

A year after the application, he built the hardware, twice over: pocket sized, voice activated, one with an e-ink screen and one with a touchscreen, neither with a network connection by design.

The GitaVardhan Devices

A phone running the GitaVardhan app held above the e-ink device.