Bhagavad Gita API - urantia.dev

The API serves The Bhagavad Gita (Annie Besant, 4th edition, 1922) as JSON, one passage at a time, by the reference people use. Krishna’s teaching to the warrior Arjuna, from the Mahabharata. It has 701 passages in 18 chapters. No key and no account.

Get a passage

# BG 2.47
curl https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/2.47
# A whole chapter
curl https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/bhagavad-gita/2

{
  "data": {
    "corpus": {
      "slug": "bhagavad-gita",
      "title": "The Bhagavad Gita",
      "translator": "Annie Besant (4th edition)",
      "year": 1922
    },
    "passages": [
      {
        "ref": "BG 2.47",
        "division": 2,
        "text": "Thy business is with the action only, never with its fruits; so let not the fruit of action be thy motive, nor be thou to inaction attached."
      }
    ]
  }
}

The slug bhagavad-gita, the id bhagavad-gita-besant-1922, and the prefix bg all name this text.

References

Chapter and verse, BG 2.47. GET /scriptures/bhagavad-gita lists every chapter with its first and last reference.

Search

# By meaning
curl -X POST https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/search/semantic \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"your question","corpus":"bhagavad-gita","limit":5}'
# By keyword
curl 'https://api.urantia.dev/works/search?q=your%20words&work=bhagavad-gita'

Each passage also links to the closest paragraphs of the Urantia Papers: GET /scriptures/bhagavad-gita/2.47/urantia-parallels. The world religions guide explains how the links are made, and the MCP server has the same calls for AI agents.

Source

Text: The Bhagavad Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th edition) (1922)
Source: en.wikisource.org
License: Public domain in the United States