What will you gain from this course? (Key Benefits / Learning Outcomes)
What are the materials/support you get?
What are the prerequisites to get the best out of this course? (Eligibility)
Please note:
This course prepares the students for the Sabha examination due in August 2022. Due to paucity of time, we will not be able to prepare the students for the exam in January 2022.
“अष्टाध्यायी जगन्माता अमरकोशो जगत्पिता” (Ashtadhyayi is the mother of the world, and Amarakosha is the father) is a popular saying. Ashtadhyayi and Amarakosha are extremely useful tools for those who wish to gain a mastery of Sanskrit language and the shastra-s. In olden times, it was a common practice to teach children to memorise these two texts at a very young age, even before formal learning began. Equipped with these fixed in memory, as they studied the language and shastra-s, the children learnt to apply the sutra-s easily, and had a phenomenal vocabulary.
Ashtadhyayi Sutrapatha (commanly known as Ashtadhyayi) is written by Maharshi Panini. Ashtadhyayi, a text of approximately 4000 sutras, is divided into eight Adhyayas (chapters), and hence named as Ashtadhyayi. अष्टानाम् अध्यायानां समाहार: इति अष्टाध्यायी. These sutra-s tell the rules of grammar conscisely and is the primordial text in Vyakarana Shastra.
In the second part of the course "Learn to Chant Ashtadhyayi - Batch 2", the 7th and 8th chapters of Ashtadhyayi will be taught in the course in the same order as the padas.
Recommended Edition –
अष्टाध्यायीसूत्रपाठः, published by Chowkhambha Sanskrit Series Office. You can also refer to the Sutrapatha in the website www.ashtadhyayi.com
All students are encouraged to purchase either the downloadable Windows version or the portable MP3 audio version of the अष्टाध्यायीसूत्रपाठः audio by Vyoma Labs. This tool has audio of the entire Ashtadhyayi in teacher-student repetition mode and chanting mode. Following the webinar classes, students are expected to practice the sutra-s which were taught using this Audio, so that they would be prepared to recite it in the next class.
Yes. There will be a set of periodic quizzes in the course and an oral test will be conducted at the end of the course. Upon successful completion of the quizzes and the oral test, a certificate will be issued to all participants who score above 60%.