Read Aloud Gita IAST

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Bhagavad Gita has been chanted and read in homes and workplaces</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. Children and families love to recite it during festivals and gatherings. It is the discourse that instructs man to realign himself to his duty and responsibility. It is the scripture that creates a strong foundation for implicit faith and concordant action in day to day life.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>How may we read the Gita?</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Its verses are written in a meter known as Anushtup Chhanda consisting of 32 syllables each. The traditional way to recite is to pause after 8 syllables. However the commonly available editions of the Bhagavad Gita do not give any such pause.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is a Reader that lists all the 700 verses of the Gita with pauses at 8 syllables i.e. at each quarter </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>in Devanagari to Latin </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Transliteration </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>using the IAST standard. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This makes it very easy for the English reader to quickly learn the proper chanting procedure. </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The split of the verses is done using Grammar rules of Sandhi as given in the Ashtadhyayi of Panini a timeless masterpiece on language word formation and syntax.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The correct method to read the </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Visarga</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and the </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Avagraha </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>is clearly explained. The Devanagari </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alphabet pronunciation key </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>is also supplied. Thus it fulfills a basic academic need of individuals schools or colleges using the Bhagavad Gita in any manner. Most institutes imparting Sanskrit teaching also use the Gita and this book is an apt textbook for the same.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Verse as chanted pausing at each pada quarter verse</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>yatra yogeśvaraᳲ kṛṣṇaḥ yatra pārtho dhanurdharaḥ |</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>tatra śrīr vijayo bhūtiḥ dhruvā nītir matir mama || 18.78</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Proper recitation of the Bhagavad Gita has immense power to enliven any atmosphere and make oneself soaked in devotion to the Divine. It is a highly healing experience in itself. A useful and complete book for an Amateur or the Scholar.</span></p>