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Introduction to Basic Spoken Sanskrit and Intermediate Level of Spoken Sanskrit

Prof. Anuradha Choudry · IIT Kharagpur

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Lectures

Week 1

  1. Lecture 1 : Introduction YouTube
  2. Lecture 2 : The Sounds of Sanskrit: Its Alphabet YouTube
  3. Lecture 3 : Sentence Construction and its underlying logic YouTube
  4. Lecture 4 : Introduction of Self and Others YouTube
  5. Lecture 5 : Basic Verbs and Some Conjugations YouTube

Week 2

  1. Lecture 6 : Introduction to the Genitive (6th) Case YouTube
  2. Lecture 7 : Counting and Reading the Time YouTube
  3. Lecture 8 : Plural of Pronouns and Nouns YouTube
  4. Lecture 9 : Conjugation of Basic Verbs in the Plural YouTube
  5. Lecture 10 : Introduction to the Locative (7th) Case YouTube

Week 3

  1. Lecture 11 : Days of the Week, Months, Future Tense YouTube
  2. Lecture 12 : Past Tense and More Verbs YouTube
  3. Lecture 13 : Introduction to the Accusative (2nd) Case YouTube
  4. Lecture 14 : Continuation of the Accusative (2nd) Case YouTube
  5. Lecture 15 : Introduction to the Instrumental (3rd) Case YouTube

Week 4

  1. Lecture 16 : Continuation of the Instrumental (3rd) Case YouTube
  2. Lecture 17 : Introduction to the Ablative (5th) Case YouTube
  3. Lecture 18 : Introduction to the Dative (4th) Case YouTube
  4. Lecture 19 : Introduction to the Vocative (8th) Case YouTube
  5. Lecture 20 : Overview and Conclusion YouTube

Week 5

  1. Lecture 21 : Introduction to the devanāgarī script: varṇamālā or alphabet YouTube
  2. Lecture 22 : Introduction to the devanāgarī script: combining consonants YouTube
  3. Lecture 23 : Revision and practice of vibhakti - declension forms: masculine words YouTube
  4. Lecture 24 : Revision and practice of vibhakti - declension forms: feminine words YouTube
  5. Lecture 25 : Revision and practice of vibhakti – declension forms: neuter words YouTube

Week 6

  1. Lecture 26 : Revision and practice of vibhakti - declension forms : first and second person pronouns in the singular YouTube
  2. Lecture 27 : Introduction to the first and second person pronouns in the plural forms – Part 1 YouTube
  3. Lecture 28 : Revision and practice of the first and second person pronouns in the plural - Part 2 YouTube
  4. Lecture 29 : Introduction of the first person pronoun in the dual form: Part 1 YouTube
  5. Lecture 30 : Introduction of the first person pronoun in the dual form: Part 2 YouTube

Week 7

  1. Lecture 31 : Introduction of the second person pronoun in the dual form: Part 1 YouTube
  2. Lecture 32 : Introduction of the second person pronoun in the dual form: Part 2 YouTube
  3. Lecture 33 : Third person pronouns and nouns (m/f) in the plural: Part 1 YouTube
  4. Lecture 34 : Third person pronouns and nouns (m/f) in the plural: Part 2 YouTube
  5. Lecture 35 : Third person pronouns and nouns (m/f) in the plural: Part 3 YouTube

Week 8

  1. Lecture 36 : Third person pronouns and nouns (m/n/f) in the plural: Part 4 YouTube
  2. Lecture 37 : Third person pronouns and nouns (m/n/f) in the plural: Part 5 YouTube
  3. Lecture 38 : Revision and Exercises: third person pronouns and nouns (m/n/f) in the plural YouTube
  4. Lecture 39 : Third person pronouns and nouns (m/n/f) in the dual: Part 1 YouTube
  5. Lecture 40 : Third person pronouns and nouns (m/n/f) in the dual: Part 2 YouTube

Week 9

  1. Lecture 41 : Third person pronouns and nouns (m/n/f) in the dual: Part 3 YouTube
  2. Lecture 42 : Third person pronouns and nouns (m/n/f) in the dual: Part 4 YouTube
  3. Lecture 43 : Third person pronouns and nouns (m/n/f) in the dual: Part 5 YouTube
  4. Lecture 44 : Revision of the third person pronouns and nouns (m/n) in the dual: Part 1 YouTube
  5. Lecture 45 : Revision of the third person pronouns and nouns (f) in the dual: Part 2 YouTube

Week 10

  1. Lecture 46 : Introduction to the verb conjugations in the kriyātipatti-lṛṅ (the conditional) YouTube
  2. Lecture 47 : Introduction to the verb conjugations in the vidhi-liṅ (the optative) YouTube
  3. Lecture 48 : Introduction to the conjugation of ‘as’ (to be) from the adādigaṇa (2nd group) in the various tenses and moods YouTube
  4. Lecture 49 : Introduction to the conjugation of the verb ‘dā’ (to give) from the juhotyādigaṇa (3rd group) in the various tenses and moods YouTube
  5. Lecture 50 : Introduction to the conjugation of the verbs ‘div’ (to shine, to sport) and ‘vid’ (to know) from the divādigaṇa (4th group) YouTube
  6. Lecture 51 : Introduction to the conjugation of the verb ‘śru’ (to hear) from the svādigaṇa (5th group) in the various tenses and moods YouTube
  7. Lecture 52 : Introduction to the conjugation of the verb from the kṛ (to do) from the tanādigaṇa (8th group) in the various tenses and moods YouTube
  8. Lecture 53 : Introduction to the conjugation of the verb 'mil' (to meet) from the tudādigaṇa (6th group) in the various tenses and moods YouTube
  9. Lecture 54 : Introduction to the conjugation of the verb 'bhuj' (to protect) from the rudhādigaṇa (7th group) in the various tenses and moods YouTube
  10. Lecture 55 : Introduction to the conjugation of the verb ‘jñā’ (to know) from the kryādigaṇa (9th group) in the various tenses and moods YouTube

Week 11

  1. Lecture 56 : Introduction of nouns (m) ending with ‘u’ and ‘i’ in the three vacanas YouTube
  2. Lecture 57 : Introduction of nouns (n) ending with ‘u’ and ‘i’ in the three vacanas YouTube
  3. Lecture 58 : Introduction of nouns (f) ending with ‘u’ and ‘i’ in the three vacanas YouTube
  4. Lecture 59 : Introduction of nouns (m) ending with ‘in’ and of nouns (n/f) ending with ‘n’ in the three vacanas YouTube
  5. Lecture 60 : Introduction of nouns (m/n/f) ending with ‘t’ in the three vacanas YouTube
  6. Lecture 61 : Introduction of nouns (m/f/n) ending with ‘ṛ’ in the three vacanas YouTube

Week 12

  1. Lecture 62 : Introduction to the svarasandhi YouTube
  2. Lecture 63 : Introduction to the visargasandhi YouTube
  3. Lecture 64 : Introduction to the vyañjanasandhi YouTube
  4. Lecture 65: Summary and Conclusion YouTube

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Kharagpur
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Anuradha Choudry
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
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