# Gyaan Daily

> Lines from the classical traditions of India, each in its own script, with a plain translation, what it means, and where it came from. Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi and English, and none of them a translation of the others.

## Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi and English. Every line with its meaning underneath.

Read it in the script it was written in, with a plain translation, what it means, and where it came from. More languages are on the way.

Not out yet. It is being finished, and it goes on the App Store when it is.

## A small app on a very long shelf.

### Nothing piles up

The app opens on one quote. Read more if you want more. Nothing counts what you have not read and nothing is waiting to be cleared.

### The note that explains it

Every quote arrives with what it says in English, what it is actually getting at, and the work it was taken from. Without that it is a nice sentence with a name under it.

### Where you already look

Widgets for the Home Screen, the Lock Screen and StandBy, and one reminder at a time you choose. It goes where your eyes already go rather than asking for a visit.

## Under every verse.

Most apps of this kind hand you a sentence and a name and leave you to it. Every quote here arrives with more underneath. This is one real card, taken apart.

Every day's quote is free to read in full, with its translation, its note and its source under it. Pro opens the card designs, the backgrounds a shared card can sit on, and the long shelf behind the day.

## Every language has its own catalogue.

The Tamil, the Hindi and the Sanskrit are not translations of an English original. They are the verse as it was written, with the English alongside it.

- **Tamil**: The Thirukkural, and the Naladiyar beside it. Around them the Eighteen Lesser Texts, the didactic poems Tamil has been quoting for centuries. Every couplet in Tamil script, with the sound of it written out underneath, so it can be read aloud by somebody who cannot yet read the letters.
- **Hindi**: Kabir and Rahim, in the dohas they were written as. Two voices that a great many Hindi speakers can half-recite and have never seen explained, with a second line that finally says what the first one meant.
- **Sanskrit**: The Bhagavad Gita, complete at 701 verses. The subhashita collections, the verse morals of the Panchatantra, and lines out of the epics. Where a verse has been given the full treatment, it is taken apart word by word, with what each word is doing in the line.
- **English**: Letters, essays, poems and speeches, all of them out of copyright. Each one carries the work it was taken from rather than a bare name, so a line you have seen on a poster arrives with the page it was written on.

## A few of them.

No reviews to show you. The app is not out, and an invented one would be a lie told in the one place you are looking for honesty. Six real cards instead, with their real attributions, which have the advantage of being checkable.

> The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
>
> Robert J. Burdette, lecture on advice to young men, February 1883

> ஆகாறு அளவிட்டி தாயினுங் கேடில்லை போகாறு அகலாக் கடை.
>
> திருவள்ளுவர், திருக்குறள் 478

> धनि रहीम जल पंक को, लघु जिय पियत अघाइ। उदधि बड़ाई कौन है, जगत पियासो जाइ॥
>
> रहीम, रहीम-कवितावली

> अकृत्वा पौरुषं या श्रीः विकासिन्यपि किं तया। जरद्गवः समश्नाति दैवादुपगतं तृणम्॥
>
> पञ्चतन्त्र/लब्धप्रणाश

## Somewhere to put it.

A line worth sending is worth sending on something. Choose the ground, and the verse and the name go on it. Part of Pro.

## One verse, every morning.

For iPhone. Every day's verse is free to read in full, with its translation and its note under it.

## Made by a small studio in Mumbai. Built for one thing, and finished before it ships.