A peek into Visualizations, High frequency words, Alphabet Dictionary & Linguistic cues in the Divine Song !

Bhagawat Gita — Philosophical Conversations between the grief struck Arjuna & Lord Krishna

A friend once said, “Reading the Gita had downloaded enormous serenity in me. No matter what happens outside, it is still from inside”

It takes a lot of courage and serendipity to read the Gita. I had been procrastinating it long for the fear of grammar, vocabulary and consequent clouding of attention. Arjuna traversed from the sorrowful aisles of Vishada to the opulences of Vibhuthi. Like a bud unfolding each petal to welcome the Spring -perhaps the song of Gita, the words that weave it and the translations will aid in the blossoming of the Gita Philosophy in the hearts of its seekers.

Arjuna was blessed with a vision to behold the divine cosmic form. At a very gross level, can we behold the words that weave this Song? For those who are bewildered by the vast grammar tables in Sanskrit, is there an entry way for Gita Parayanam and Bhaja Govindam without the obstacles of Dukrinkaranam (grammar)? Recently I was reading about Twitter Analysis with Data Science and it stuck to me, “How about doing it with Gita?”

Methodology Followed

The English verses of Gita were taken from Kaggle Data Science Site. For the purpose of searching and counting patterns and creating frequency tables, Python and Data Science Modules were used. Input patterns were provided based on familiar verses of Gita.

What are the number of words? What was the conversation style? Were there any grammar patterns to learn? How did the Alphabet wise Dictionary look?

Let us begin with the number of chapters and verses in each.

Now let us look into the number of words in each Chapter. About 10K words make up these 700 verses. Seems like a big number to digest... Like a Data Scientist, let us work in the Frequency Domain. Not all the 10K words are unique.Let us make a table of frequent words and their frequency.