about
What this is, and what it is built out of.
अनुवृत्ति · anuvrtti
what the site isA graded Sanskrit reader indexed to the Aṣṭādhyāyī. Readings are ordered by difficulty, classical and Vedic; every word carries its grammatical analysis and the sūtras that derive it. Five doors: read is the sequence, workbook is the Bālabodhinī lesson by lesson, usage is which forms the corpus actually attests, sūtra is Pāṇini in full, and grammar is Kāle.
The last two used to be one door. They are different books answering different questions — Pāṇini states the rules that generate the language; Kāle describes how the language behaves, in the order a learner meets it — so they are two.
బాలబోధిని · Bālabodhini
primary source for the reading trackA digitisation of the first volume of the Telugu-medium Sanskrit primer బాలబోధిని — ప్రథమ భాగము (Bālabodhini, Part One) by Kāśī Kṛṣṇācārya.
- author
- కాశీ కృష్ణాచార్య · Kāśī Kṛṣṇācārya
- published
- 1956
- language
- Telugu, with Sanskrit in Telugu script
- pages
- 124
- copyright
- out of copyright — public domain
- digitised by
- Digital Library of India · IIIT Hyderabad
- source
- archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.371072
The structured lesson data on this site — vocabulary, reading sentences, exercises and paradigms — was extracted from the digitised scan. English translations and glosses were added editorially, to support learners without Telugu.
अष्टाध्यायी · Aṣṭādhyāyī
grammar reference and commentaryThe sūtra text and commentary are drawn from Śrīśa Chandra Vasu's 1891 translation of Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī, via ashtadhyayi.com. The layered commentary is an original editorial work.
व्याकरण · A Higher Sanskrit Grammar
the grammar doorMoreśvara Rāmacandra Kāle's A Higher Sanskrit Grammar, 1894 — 988 sections across 26 chapters, from the alphabet through sandhi, declension, compounds, the feminine bases and the verb. Each section is a page here, cross-referenced to the sūtras it discusses: 656 of Kāle's citations resolve to an Aṣṭādhyāyī rule, and every sūtra page links back to the sections that treat it.
- author
- मोरेश्वर रामचन्द्र काले · M. R. Kāle
- published
- 1894
- copyright
- out of copyright — public domain
- page scans
- dukrnkarane.udapaana.in
the tools underneath
open-source software this depends on- vidyut-prakriya
- derives forms from a root, step by step, with the sūtra applied at each step — it is what conjugate and derivation run on, and what the paradigm grids in usage are checked against
- shlesha
- transliteration — every script the display toggle offers passes through it
- SvelteKit
- the application, deployed on Cloudflare Pages
the source
corrections welcomeAn open-source project. The readings, the commentary and the glossary are hand-authored and certainly contain errors; the code and the corpus are both on GitHub, and any page can be corrected from the site itself with a GitHub account.