INTERMEDIATE COURSE

The Intermediate course is the second level towards learning Sanskrit language.

The objective of this course is to give students a more elaborate foundation of Sanskrit as a living language.

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This course will introduce to further grammatical structures that will facilitate their understanding of simple texts as well as allow them to use in daily life.

DURATION / TIMINGS

  • 42 hours course
  • 21 weeks
  • 2 hours/week

WHERE / HOW?

  • Online live videos
  • Access to all recorded sessions
  • Live Sanskrit scripts

ELIGIBILITY

  • Knowledge of Basic Sanskrit
  • Those who have completed the beginner's course

COURSE OUTCOME

  • The intermediate Sanskrit course seeks to provide with a deeper appreciation of the beauty of the different aspects of this language from its sounds, grammar to its rich content so that they feel enthused enough to delve further into it.

Course Curriculum

Revision of varnamala, sounds and writing in Devnagari script. Combining vowels and consonants and learning their sounds.
After combining vowels and consonants next step will be to combine consonants with consonants.
Revision of declension of masculine words.
Revision of declension of feminine words.
Revision of declension of neuter words.
A participle is an adjective formed from a verb. A past passive participle (PPP) is an adjective that describes the object of an action that occurred in the past. In Sanskrit, the PPP is usually formed by adding the suffix 'त/इत' or 'न' directly onto the root.
The Sanskrit past active participle is a participle or "verbal adjective". It can be used in an adjectival way to modify a noun. It is characterized by the affix "-tavat-".
In Sanskrit grammar – voice means प्रयोग (प्र + युज् = construction/arrangement). Voice is the correlation of subject, object and verb.
We will learn three kinds of voices and how it is used in sentences.
Compounds are words that we make by combining multiple words. Sanskrit uses compounds extensively. In some styles of Sanskrit, almost every sentence will have a compound.
The first type of compound in which two words are joined together. E.g. रामःसीता च → रामसीते (Rama and Sita). The word dvandva literally means "pair."
Compound words where the प्राधान्यम् is on the first element. For example, upakumbham उपकुम्भम् (near the water jar).
A special class of tatpuruṣa compounds called karmadhāraya कर्मधारय, where the prominence is on the second element.
Compound words where the प्राधान्यम् lies outside the compound itself on an antecedent word, called bahuvrīhi बहुव्रीहि compounds. For example, mahābāhu महाबाहु (who has great hands).
The word sandhi (sam + dhi) means 'melding' or joint. The disorder that occurs due to the mutual combination of two adjacent characters is called sandhi. E.g. Sam + Tosh = contentment; Dev + Indra = Devendra.
Indeclinable words which do not change according to inflection, word, gender and time. E.g. बलकः अधुना पठति। (the girl is studying now)
Introduction to the kriyātipatti-lṛṅ [लङृ lṛṅ] – conditional) using yadi – if and tarhi – then.
Introduction to conjugation of अस 'as' (to be) from adādigaṇa (2nd group); 'div' and 'vid' from divādigaṇa (4th group); 'śru' from svādigaṇa (5th group); kṛ from tanādigaṇa (8th group); "da" To Give; mil from tudādigaṇa (6th group); bhuj from rudhādigaṇa (7th group); 'jñā' from kryādigaṇa (9th group).