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Devanagari Vowels — स्वराः

Meet the thirteen vowels of Sanskrit and the breath behind each.

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Consonants — व्यञ्जनानि

The 33 consonants, organised by where in the mouth they live.

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Conjunct Consonants — संयुक्ताक्षराणि

When two consonants meet, a new shape is born.

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Greetings — अभिवादनम्

Hello, thank you, and the small graces of meeting.

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Numbers — सङ्ख्या

One to ten, and the surprising echoes in English.

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Everyday words — दैनिकं शब्दाः

Family, food, the sun and the stars — your first vocabulary.

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The eight cases — विभक्तयः

Sanskrit nouns wear eight little robes — one for each role in a sentence.

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Sandhi — where sounds touch

When two words meet, their last and first sounds shake hands.

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Verbs — क्रियापदम्

Roots, persons, tenses — how Sanskrit makes a verb.

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Reading a Shanti mantra

Word by word through the most universal blessing of Sanskrit.

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Asato Ma Sadgamaya

From the unreal lead me to the real. A Brihadaranyaka classic.

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The Gayatri Mantra

The most famous verse of the Rig Veda, unwound word by word.

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Bhagavad Gita 2.47 — your right to action

Krishna's most quoted verse, slowly unpacked.

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Isha Upanishad — opening verse

The whole is permeated by the divine. The first line of the shortest Upanishad.

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A subhashita — the small jewel

A two-line verse that captures a whole philosophy of speech.

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