The shape of the Gita: mapping 700 verses with a knowledge graph
I turned all 700 verses of the Bhagavad Gita into a knowledge graph and a set of embeddings, then asked what the text looks like when you map...
Series · 3 parts
The Gita
A verse-by-verse digital study of the Bhagavad Gita, mapped with a knowledge graph.
This series grew out of a verse-by-verse digital edition of the Bhagavad Gita. All 18 chapters and 700 shlokas (verses) are in place, each with the Sanskrit, a transliteration, a word-by-word gloss, and a translation.
From that edition I built a knowledge graph: every verse, speaker, theme, Sanskrit-grounded concept, and character loaded into Neo4j, with semantic-similarity links between verses that mean the same thing. The three posts below map the text, explain how the graph is made, and count its Sanskrit vocabulary.
Building a knowledge graph of the Bhagavad Gita
The companion to the map: how 700 markdown verse files became a graph of 5,314 nodes and nearly 22,000 relationships, deterministically and rebuildably, with the English translation and...
The words the Gita repeats: counting its Sanskrit vocabulary
The first two posts leaned on the English translation. This one counts the Sanskrit: 3,340 words from the word-by-word glosses, where they follow the same frequency laws as...