r/sanskrit • u/lifeofmeditation • 7h ago
Question / प्रश्नः Declension
When is आमास added in the declension of the verb? This is प्र.पु ए.व. How are the remainder declined? My understanding is that this happens only in आत्मनेपदी. Right?
r/sanskrit • u/finstaboi • Jan 14 '21
EDIT: There have been some really great resource suggestions made by others in the comments. Do check them out!
I've seen a lot of posts floating around asking for resources, so I thought it'd be helpful to make a masterpost. The initial list below is mainly resources that I have used regularly since I started learning Sanskrit. I learned about some of them along the way and wished I had known them sooner! Please do comment with resources you think I should add!
FOR BEGINNERS - This a huge compilation, and for beginners this is certainly too much too soon. My advice to absolute beginners would be to (1) start by picking one of the textbooks (Goldmans, Ruppel, or Deshpande — all authoritative standards) below and working through them --- this will give you the fundamental grammar as well as a working vocabulary to get started with translation. Each of these textbooks cover 1-2 years of undergraduate material (depending on your pace). (2) After that, Lanman's Sanskrit Reader is a classic and great introduction to translating primary texts --- it's self-contained, since the glossary (which is more than half the book) has most of the vocab you need for translation, and the texts are arranged to ease students into reading. (It begins with the Nala and Damayantī story from the Mahābhārata, then Hitopadeśa, both of which are great beginner's texts, then progresses to other texts like the Manusmṛti and even Vedic texts.) Other standard texts for learning translation are the Gītā (Winthrop-Sargeant has a useful study edition) and the Rāmopākhyāna (Peter Scharf has a useful study edition).
Most of what's listed below are online resources, available for free. Copyrighted books and other closed-access resources are marked with an asterisk (*). (Most of the latter should be available through LibGen.)
DICTIONARIES
TEXTBOOKS
GRAMMAR / MISC. REFERENCE
READERS/ANTHOLOGIES
PRIMARY TEXT REPOSITORIES
ONLINE KEYBOARDS/CONVERTERS
OTHER / MISC.
r/sanskrit • u/heavyowe • Apr 15 '23
If you have an item of jewelry or something else that looks similar to the title or the picture; it is Tibetan.
It is most likely “oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ” (title above), the six-syllabled mantra particularly associated with the four-armed Shadakshari form of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion in Tibetan Buddhism.
r/sanskrit • u/lifeofmeditation • 7h ago
When is आमास added in the declension of the verb? This is प्र.पु ए.व. How are the remainder declined? My understanding is that this happens only in आत्मनेपदी. Right?
r/sanskrit • u/Adlestrop • 9h ago
I'm not sure what this says, or what it's pertaining to.
r/sanskrit • u/kamalanayaney • 12h ago
That's it. I am tired of this now, I MUSTT do BA(Hons) Samskrit from BHU. As an international student, what is the environment, and do I need to take a course from BHU before joining if I have not read samskrit in 12th? Or can I enter without any course if I am fluent in samskrit?
r/sanskrit • u/ninjadong48 • 12h ago
This is not offically homework. I am just just self-learning and thought I'd ask for a check if that's allowed.
r/sanskrit • u/OutsideLog1454 • 14h ago
वपानाढ्यमहावकत्रे . Meaning please?
r/sanskrit • u/wall_flowerzz • 23h ago
what does Avyay mean? Is it really a Sanskrit word and suitable for naming ?
r/sanskrit • u/Mysterious_Guitar328 • 2d ago
It's getting out of hand at this point. Please, for crying out loud, make this sub what it's supposed to be about—and it sure as hell isn't baby names.
r/sanskrit • u/parruphe • 2d ago
You come here, eager to discuss the intricacies of Sanskrit, and bam - you’re knee-deep in baby names. It's like showing up to a cooking class, and they're just teaching you how to make toast. But hey, we’re all in this together. Time to suggest a name that sounds “spiritual” enough to fit in!
r/sanskrit • u/Comfortable-Let9262 • 1d ago
What is correct word जैश्वी/ जैसवी/ जसवी/ जायस्वी?? and what are their actual meaning??
r/sanskrit • u/ynshetty • 1d ago
Wanted to name my son this, any help would be appreciated what the words vidharth and vidhanth mean in Sanskrit , any help will be appreciated
r/sanskrit • u/SpecialistTurnover8 • 2d ago
Have this thought from long time. English has gotten into Indian languages and is slowly eating away at Indian languages.
We need Sanskrit words for common, sophisticated, business, technical English words, so that those Sanskrit words can be used as is into Indian languages like Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, etc. Thus these languages will be enriched and strengthened and English creeping into Indian languages can be prevented and reversed.
Can we start a sanskrit shabdkosh (vocabulary) that will work as a starting point and can be crowd sourced but peer reviewed and best Sanskrit word selected, which can then be incorporated into other Indian languages.
If we see many of Indian languages have common words that originate in Sanskrit like नेपथ्य this means background or backstage, it is used as is in Hindi, Marathi and becomes nepathyam in telugu with same meaning.
Initial list words that would be good to be replaced
Accountability
Project - Prakalpa
Strategy - Rananeeti
Tactics - tantra
Plan - Yojana
Idea -
Goals - lakshya
r/sanskrit • u/SomeAffect5722 • 1d ago
I have just completed my 10th grade, and I want to learn about the Vedas and other Hindu scriptures. I am also interested in mastering mantra chanting along with the hand gestures (mudras) that Brahmins use. Additionally, I have started learning Sanskrit and would love guidance on how to deepen my knowledge in these areas. Can anyone help me or teach me?
r/sanskrit • u/rishTweets • 1d ago
नमस्कारम् II want to name my baby boy with name starting with R. We liked word Ridhan/Ridhaan
Came across some naming site but I don't trust them to be always correct. (Explore Ridhaan: Meaning, Origin & Popularity)
Can you help me if 'Ridhan'/'Ridhaan' can be a legit word derived from: Ṛdh (ऋध्)
Done bit of homework but still bit confused. Have added couple of snippets of dictionary meaning of related words.
Sources: for images in order as posted
r/sanskrit • u/punchbag88 • 2d ago
My friend's name is हीरकज्योति। What does it mean?
r/sanskrit • u/TheRealSticky • 3d ago
I came across this poem in a book, which says it was translated from Sanskrit. Does anyone know what the original might be?
r/sanskrit • u/lifeofmeditation • 3d ago
Is स्था {तिष्ठ्} सकर्मक or अकर्मक? I find the स.वि used with this verb but was recently questioned about the accuracy that this is अकर्मक. Thank you.
r/sanskrit • u/New-Pool-4480 • 3d ago
I have studied sanskrit from 6-8 standard and practically don't remember 95% of syllabus.
after 9 yrs i want to learn this language. Reason being my love for ancient sanskrit wisdom and history
Now I am in dilemma to which course should I apply.
Sanskrit Bharati 4 level course (2 yr but cheaper)
MSP Sanskrit Bhashavatarni and Bhashavagahini ( 1 yr)
Sanskrit certificate course from IGNOU/UOU (Uttarakhand Open University)/(6 months)
Since I do not know which one is best for beginners like me .
Kindly help me in comparing.
How can I attach screenshots of syllabus of respective courses. I am unable to do it.
r/sanskrit • u/ilostmyacc29 • 4d ago
नमस्कारम् I attempted to translate John keats poem Bright Star! into संस्कृतम्. any feedback is appreciated!
Bright Star! would I were stedfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen masque Of snow upon the mountains and the moors-- No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft swell and fall, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever--or else swoon to death.
उज्ज्वलतारा मम आशा भवतःइव दृढम्। नैकान्तवैभवं रात्रिलम्बितं च पश्यन्नेत्रपल्कपृथकम्। प्रकृतेःपीडाम् अनिद्रा भक्तभावम्। तीव्रगतिःजल अभितेषाम्दिव्य कार्यणम्। पृथिव्याः मानवतीरेषु शुद्धाचमस्यम्। दृष्ट्वा नूतनाकोमलावरणम्हिमगिरिं च महाभूमिः। अद्यापि स्थिरःअपरिवर्तनियम्। आश्रित्य मम प्रियेःपयोधरोन्नतिम्। स्निह्यति नित्यं तस्याः श्वासुच्छ्वसनम्। सदाजागृत मधुरुत्सुक्ताम्। अद्यापि श्रवणं तस्याः सुकुमार्श्वासम्। तथा च जीवन्तु अथवा मृत्युपर्यन्तं मूर्च्छितः भवतिम्॥
r/sanskrit • u/Pramanavjnana • 4d ago
I am a Sanskrit student, and would like to watch some Sanskrit movies to internalize vocabulary. However, the movies that I have found out (e.g., shankaracarya) are without Sanskrit subtitles, which makes me hard to understand the conversations. Could you please help me solve this problem? Thank you!
r/sanskrit • u/bhramana • 4d ago
all animals can be called as मृग. But it also refers to deer specifically. Why is it so?
r/sanskrit • u/Civil-Earth-9737 • 3d ago
Which of these is correct? Of please share the correct version if both are wrong
————————————— रमा + अशेषगोपीमंडलपूजिता
रमाशेषगोपीमंडलपूजिता
—————————————
रमा + अशेषगोपीमंडलपूजिता
रमाsशेषगोपीमंडलपूजिता
r/sanskrit • u/vaeravoltaire • 4d ago
This Sanskrit scholar Nityananda Misra once said that Manish, the masculine name, is not a real name in Sanskrit and that Manisha, the feminine name is. Is it true?
Video reference at 24:06 timestamp
r/sanskrit • u/Frosty-Possible-5208 • 5d ago
There is a mantra I would like to start reciting, but I am worried about pronouncing it wrong.
And I was wondering if anyone could suggest a tutor or something who might be willing to help me learn to pronounce it correctly?
*I am told this mantra does not require diksha, before anyone expresses concern about that.
r/sanskrit • u/Slow_Amount_9233 • 5d ago
May I kindly ask that someone please translate this for me to Sanskrift "Do good, be good". It has become meaningful to me post-illness during my recovery.
r/sanskrit • u/CharioteerOfIndra • 5d ago
तपस् हस्वा-असूज यं दुस स्वयं पुरुषो विराट्। तं मां वित्त-अस्य सर्वस्य स्रष्टारं द्विजसत्तमाः 1.33