Course description
This course aims to build on the knowledge and capabilities acquired in Sanskrit Beginners. The course enables students to recognize and translate a range of grammatical forms and sentence constructions. The first part of the course is dedicated to revision of selected topics, followed by an examination of compounds and elaboration on three main compound types (tatpuruṣa, karmadhāraya, bahuvrīhi).
Another familiar aspect of the language, sandhi, is also deconstructed and the course proceeds to distinguish between consonant and vowel sandhi and their implications on sentence structure and cadence. In terms of conjugation and declension, the present system is expanded to include the optative mood and the course ends with an introduction to consonant stems and the principles of stems with one and two variants. The course completes the cycle of stories from the Hitopadeśa and introduces the great epics, beginning with the story of Śakuntalā in the Mahābhārata.
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