The Bhagavad Gita has been chanted and read in homes and workplaces. 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.

How may we read the Gita? It's 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. This book lists all 700 Sanskrit verses of the Gita in Devanagari script with pause at 8 syllables i.e. at each quarter.

The split of the verses is done using Grammar rules of Sandhi as given in the Ashtadhyayi of Panini, a timeless...