It was the speech, the spoken word not the written letter that is at the base of the Sanskrit grammar. All speculations and practices are concerned with the oral. Panini’sAstadhyayiis also based on the sounds of spoken Sanskrit. The spoken language in Sanskrit was/is the real language. Th...
By writing about it, our own concepts will be clarified. Feel free to add more to what I say as well as correct my errors as we go along. I am a total novice to Sanskrit grammar and am eager to learn. I will be using laghu siddhAnta kaumudii as the text. You don't have to r...
1.A.8 Practising the Alphabet One way of memorizing the script is by writing it: look at the form of the letter, sound it, and then write it. In this exercise it is important to associate the sound with the form. When you write the letter, write the whole letter without referring ...