Nine-Year-Old Sanskrit Scholar Develops Offline Bhagavad Gita App
Vrishvardhan Sharma, a nine-year-old homeschooled student from Bengaluru, has memorised the entire Bhagavad Gita by age five and Panini's Ashtadhyayi with around 4,000 sutras by age eight. He has won national awards competing against older scholars and has handwritten the Gita in multiple Indian scripts. Combining his Sanskrit scholarship with technology, he developed GitaVardhan, an offline app featuring the Bhagavad Gita in 13 Indian languages, including audio recitations and commentaries, without requiring internet access or collecting personal data.
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timesnow broke this story on 25 Sept, 08:33 am. Other outlets followed.