2026-01-22 I Sanskrit for Chanting - Level 1

A 6-week course

Online and Recorded 

Starting Thu Jan 22 @ 10:30 am ET

[Eligibility: Sanskrit for chanting course or knowledge of Sanskrit alphabet from other study ]

The objective of the course:

Understanding the basics of the structure of Sanskrit Grammar with a special focus on different types of nouns and verbs and simple derivational processes and a few types of sandhis (merging of letters) as found in various Sanskrit prayers and the Vedic hymns.

Sanskrit prayers and Vedic suktams are written in contracted form and thus difficult to understand, with this knowledge you will be able to split the sentences into separate words for better comprehension.  

• Overview of Sanskrit alphabet and efforts used in pronunciation 
• Introduction to padas (words) and the dhatus (verbal roots)
• Declensions of simple words and conjugations of verbs with the examples used in sutras 
• Guna and Vrddhi 
• Sandhis (vowel, consonant and visarga sandhis)

with practical examples from Sanskrit prayers and the Vedic hymns.

Prem Sadasivananda has a MA (Master) in Sanskrit from the MIT Institute of Vedic Sciences, Pune, India