Course Summary: Sanskrit 100

Duration: 10 weeks, one session per week


Course Objectives:

  • Read and write the Devanagari Script.
  • Know and practice the proper pronunciation of Sanskrit.
  • Understand and apply the Sandhi rules with vowels and Visarga.
  • Learn the eight cases in Sanskrit through the declension of Masculine and Feminine nouns
  • Differentiate and apply the four different conjugation verb groups.
  • Conjugate verbs in different tenses and moods
  • Distinguish verbs preceded by prepositions and determine their verbal base.
  • Translate simple to complex sentences from Sanskrit to English and English to Sanskrit

Grading Structure:

  • No attendance
  • 25% Lesson Assessments
  • 25% Oral/Verbal Assessment
  • 50% Written Final Exam (online, multiple choice, 48-hour turnaround)


Course Summary: Sanskrit 200

Duration: 10 weeks, one session per week


Course Objectives/Curriculum:

  • Read and write the Devanagari Script.
  • Know and practice the proper pronunciation of Sanskrit.
  • Understand and apply the Sandhi rules with vowels and Visarga.
  • Masculine and Feminine: इ and उ nouns
  • Masculine and Feminine: ऋ and ई nouns
  • Ablative, Genitive, Locative, and Vocative Cases
  • Prepositions Governing the Genitive Case
  • Verbs preceded by a preposition
  • Irregular Verbs of the 10th Conjugation
  • The Imperfect Tense, ऌङ्
  • Imperative Mood
  • Translate simple to complex sentences from Sanskrit to English and English to Sanskrit

Grading Structure:

  • No attendance
  • 25% Lesson Assessments
  • 25% Oral/Verbal Assessment
  • 50% Written Final Exam (online, multiple choice, 48-hour turnaround)

Course Summary: Sanskrit 300

Duration: 10 weeks, one session per week


Course Objectives/Curriculum:

  • Read and write the Devanagari Script.
  • Know and practice the proper pronunciation of Sanskrit.
  • Understand and apply the Sandhi rules with vowels and Visarga.
  • Feminine: ऊ nouns
  • Neuter Nouns in: इ उ and ऋ
  • Adjectives in: इ उ and ऋ
  • Nouns ending in Consonants
  • Potential (or Optative) Mood, वि धि ऌि ङ्
  • Imperative and Potential of the Verb कृ to do
  • Personal Pronouns
  • Passive Voice, Active Voice
  • Demonstrative Pronouns: इदम्and अदम्
  • Translate simple to complex sentences from Sanskrit to English and English to Sanskrit

Grading Structure:

  • No attendance
  • 25% Lesson Assessments
  • 25% Oral/Verbal Assessment
  • 50% Written Final Exam (online, multiple choice, 48-hour turnaround)

Course Summary: Sanskrit 400

Duration: 10 weeks, one session per week


Course Objectives:

  • Read and write the Devanagari Script.
  • Know and practice the proper pronunciation of Sanskrit.
  • Understand and apply the Sandhi rules with vowels and Visarga.
  • Nouns with One Stem
  • Nouns & Adjectives with Two Stems
  • Passive Impersonals, भावेप्रयोग :
  • Present participle
  • Active, शतृ
  • Passive, शनच्
  • The Use of Participles (like adjectives)

Grading Structure:

  • No attendance
  • 25% Lesson Assessments
  • 25% Oral/Verbal Assessment
  • 50% Written Final Exam (online, multiple choice, 48-hour turnaround)

Course Summary: Sanskrit 500

Duration: 10 weeks, one session per week


Course Objectives:

  • Read and write the Devanagari Script.
  • Know and practice the proper pronunciation of Sanskrit.
  • Understand and apply the Sandhi rules with vowels and Visarga.
  • Nouns and Adjectives with Three Stems
  • Strong Stem ends in आन्
  • Middle Stem ends in अ
  • Weak Stem ends in न्
  • Adjectives of Direction ending in अच्
  • General rules for the formation of Feminine adjectives ending in vowels
  • Exceptions
  • Interrogative Pronoun कि म्and Relative Pronoun यद्

Grading Structure:

  • No attendance
  • 25% Lesson Assessments
  • 25% Oral/Verbal Assessment
  • 50% Written Final Exam (online, multiple choice, 48-hour turnaround)

Course Summary: Sanskrit 600

Duration: 10 weeks, one session per week


Course Objectives:

  • Read and write the Devanagari Script.
  • Know and practice the proper pronunciation of Sanskrit.
  • Understand and apply the Sandhi rules with vowels and Visarga.
  • Indeclinable Past Participle
  • Uses of the indeclinable past participle
  • Locative and Genitive Absolute
  • Infinitive in तमु ्(तमु नु )्
  • The Subordinate Clause
  • The Noun-Clause
  • Adjective-Clause
  • The Adverb-Clause
  • Cardinals and Ordinals from 1 to 19

Grading Structure:

  • No attendance
  • 25% Lesson Assessments
  • 25% Oral/Verbal Assessment
  • 50% Written Final Exam (online, multiple choice, 48-hour turnaround)

Course Summary: Aṣṭādhyāyī 100

Duration: 10 weeks, one session per week


Course Objectives:

  • Read and write the Devanagari Script.
  • Know and practice the proper pronunciation of Sanskrit.
  • Translate simple to complex sentences from Sanskrit to English and English to Sanskrit

Grading Structure:

  • No attendance
  • 25% Lesson Assessments
  • 75% Final Comprehensive Exam (online, multiple choice, 48-hour turnaround)

Course Summary: Aṣṭādhyāyī 200

Duration: 10 weeks, one session per week


Course Objectives:

  • Read and write the Devanagari Script.
  • Know and practice the proper pronunciation of Sanskrit.
  • Translate simple to complex sentences from Sanskrit to English and English to Sanskrit

Grading Structure:

  • No attendance
  • 25% Lesson Assessments
  • 75% Final Comprehensive Exam (online, multiple choice, 48-hour turnaround)

Course Summary: Aṣṭādhyāyī 300

Duration: 10 weeks, one session per week


Course Description:

  • Read and write the Devanagari Script.
  • Know and practice the proper pronunciation of Sanskrit.
  • Translate simple to complex sentences from Sanskrit to English and English to Sanskrit

Grading Structure:

  • No attendance
  • 25% Lesson Assessments
  • 75% Final Comprehensive Exam (online, multiple choice, 48-hour turnaround)

Course Summary: Aṣṭādhyāyī 400

Duration: 10 weeks, one session per week


Course Objectives:

  • Read and write the Devanagari Script.
  • Know and practice the proper pronunciation of Sanskrit.
  • Translate simple to complex sentences from Sanskrit to English and English to Sanskrit

Grading Structure:

  • No attendance
  • 25% Lesson Assessments
  • 75% Final Comprehensive Exam (online, multiple choice, 48-hour turnaround)

Course Summary: Aṣṭādhyāyī 500

Duration: 10 weeks, one session per week


Course Description:

  • Verb conjugation
  • Read and write the Devanagari Script.
  • Know and practice the proper pronunciation of Sanskrit.
  • Translate simple to complex sentences from Sanskrit to English and English to Sanskrit

Grading Structure:

  • No attendance
  • 25% Lesson Assessments
  • 75% Final Comprehensive Exam (online, multiple choice, 48-hour turnaround)