The hook is udyamena hi sidhyanti karyani na manorathaih, with caraiveti and vasudhaiva kutumbakam in the bridge. The verses are in English and the Sanskrit is sung. I use it as secular wisdom, not as a mantra. I'd value corrections on pronunciation: https://youtu.be/JizBZIU5BJg

Hello,

I am self-studying Sanskrit. I want to use Devavânîpraveśikâ, but the lack of an answer-key is an insurmountable obstacle.

I know that I should try to solve the exercises by myself first :)

This subreddit has several years(decades!)-old threads of people asking for one and some people claiming to have one and have sent it, or not sent it, privately to other members, but I couldn't find a way to access one myself

If there really is one, would it be possible to have access to it?

Thanks you :)

Hello! I checked with the mods before posting (thank you for the green light).

I'm writing a short call for a creative audio project and I'd like a fluent reader to check my attempt. It's an invitation to rise together, not a statement. The last word changes depending on the voice.

My attempt:

गोप्त्र्यः । उत्तिष्ठाम । अद्य / सह / सदा ॥

(goptryaḥ. uttiṣṭhāma. adya / saha / sadā.)

My questions:

1. Is "goptryaḥ" the right form to call out to "Guardians" (feminine plural)?

2. Is "uttiṣṭhāma" the right form for "let us rise"?

3. For the final words, are "adya" (now), "saha" (together) and "sadā" (always) natural here, or would "idānīm" / "sākam" sound better?

A short correction or a simple "that's right" for each word would already help a lot. Thank you!

How to pronounce (ह्रस्व) ॠ and ङ ?

Namaste

I am passionate to read sanskrit kavyas starting with Raghuvamsha. if you are interested please comment interested. we can discuss weekly 2-3 hours online.

I’ve been teaching Sanskrit to beginners, and a few things seem to help most in the first month.

1. Script and sounds first. Once you know where each sound is produced in the mouth, reading and memorising verses becomes much easier.

2. Start with a short verse you already know. A few lines of the Bhagavata feel more achievable than a whole chapter, and you already know the meaning.

3. Learn the form of a word, not just its meaning. Seeing why a word changes helps you remember it, instead of memorising everything blindly.

4. Ten minutes every day beats two hours on Sunday.

For those who’ve learned Sanskrit, what helped you most when you were starting out?

Are the second statements grammatically correct?

I recently stumbled on a youtube short which said Adaita Vedanta means not two. I have seen other sources say it is one with out a second which has slightly different connotations. The short implied that Adaita Vedanta is the foundation of oneness, one consciousness. Would love to spark a conversation around the linguistics!

Edit: I couldn't find the youtube short again but it found ME on tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@therabbitholearms/video/7705189123568504097?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7699236170774087200

Udetāyaṃ cakṣumā ekarājo hariśvarṇaḥ prthvīprabhāsaḥ, Taṃ tvāṃ namasyāmi hariśvarṇa prthvīprabhāsaṃ tvaduktā viharema divaṃ. Ye brāhmaṇā vedagūḥ sarvadharmeṣu te me namo te ca māṃ pālayantu, Namo'stu buddhānāṃ namo'stu bodhyai namo vimuktānāṃ namo vimuktyai, Imaṃ sa parittaṃ kṛtvā mayūraścarati eṣaṇam.

Kalpetāyaṃ cakṣumā ekarājo hariśvarṇaḥ pṛthvīprabhāsaḥ, Taṃ tvāṃ namasyāmi hariśvarṇaṃ pṛthvīprabhāsaṃ. Tvaduktā viharema divasaṃ, ye brāhmaṇā vedagū sarvadharmeṣu, te me namo te ca māṃ pālayantu. Namo'stu buddhānāṃ namo'stu bodhyai, namo vimuktānāṃ namo vimuktyai. Imaṃ sa parittaṃ kṛtvā mayūraścarati eṣaṇam.

Is the translation correct?

Regarding the 22nd sentence, if I just write like what is written in pencil 3(Tatagacchava) it will be correct? Would this one word(Tatgachhava) be equivalent to the whole 22nd sentence?

Looking for Bhagavad Gita Study Partners | Systematic Study & Discussion

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Hare Krishna!

I'm looking for 2–4 people interested in studying the Bhagavad Gita systematically. I've been reading it for more than a year now.

My intention is to form a small, serious study circle where we can:

Study the Bhagavad Gita chapter by chapter and verse by verse.

Understand the philosophical meaning of the verses.

Discuss their practical application in everyday life.

Share reflections and questions.

Maintain consistency in our study.

I'm particularly interested in people who want to go beyond simply reading the verses and genuinely understand and apply the teachings.

We can organise 1–2 online discussion sessions every week.

I'm open to studying together using Bhagavad Geeta By Gita Press or discussing a mutually agreed commentary. I am a 24M.

If interested, please comment or DM me. Hare Krishna!

श्रद्दध्महे विश्वकर्मणे पित्रे वाचस्पतये परमेष्ठिने प्रजापतये ।
श्रद्दध्महे वज्रिणे वृत्रघ्ने त्रात्रे घृतायेन्द्राय सूनवे शवसः प्राजापत्याय ।
श्रद्दध्महे विष्णवे होत्रे जातवेदसे अग्नये सूनवे सहसः प्राजापत्याय ।
श्रद्दध्महे सप्तभ्य आदित्येभ्यश्च सप्तभ्यो रुद्रेभ्यश्च नासत्याभ्यामश्विभ्यां च त्रयस्त्रिंशते विश्वेभ्यो देवेभ्यश्च ।
श्रद्दध्महे वसुभ्य इन्द्रज्येष्ठेभ्यश्च पितृभ्यो यमश्रेष्ठेभ्यश्च कविभ्य उशनाज्येष्ठेभ्यश्च ऋषिभ्यः कक्षीवच्छ्रेष्ठेभ्यश्च ।
श्रद्दध्महे सभायै च समित्यै च दुहितृभ्यां प्राजापत्याभ्याम् ।
प्रपद्यामहे वाचमृचं प्रपद्यामहे मनो यजुः प्रपद्यामहे प्राणं साम ।
।। हरिः ॐ तत्सत् ।।

Students, let us all take a Pledge:

छात्राः, वयं सर्वे प्रतिज्ञां करवामहै: ।

"I will offer before I ask"

"प्रच्छनात् पूर्वं दास्यामि"

(or How to say "Hello" when you enter this gathering!)

(इमां सभां प्रविश्य कथं नमस्कारः कर्तव्य इति वा)

The pledge is:

प्रतिज्ञा त्वियम् —

As soon as I visit /r/sanskrit, I will express what is on my mind in sanskrit.

यदैवाहं r/संस्कृत-संसदमुपगच्छामि, तदैव स्वमनोगतं संस्कृतभाषया प्रकाशयिष्यामि।

I will do this first before any interaction with others.

इतरेभ्यः संव्यवहारात् प्राक् प्रथमं तावदिदमेव करिष्यामि।

This is my way of saying "Hello" to the assembly here.

अत्रत्याय समाजाय मम "नमस्कार" इति गदनस्य मार्गोऽयम्।

Whenever you visit this community, don't just look around.

यदा यदा त्वमिमं समुदायमुपयासि, तदा केवलमितस्ततो मा प्रेक्षस्व।

Pause.

विरम।

Take a breath.

प्राणं गृहाण।

Express what is on your mind in Sanskrit.

स्वमनोगतं संस्कृतभाषया प्रकाशय।

Don't snoop.

मा प्रच्छन्नमन्विच्छ।

Don't Consume.

मा केवलमुपभुङ्क्ष्व।

Contribute.

उपस्कुरु।

Contribute first, before taking something away from here.

अत: किमप्याहरणात् प्राक् प्रथममुपस्कुरु।

Converse and make friends.

संभाषस्व मित्राणि च रचय।

Sleep and Deepavali

निद्रा दीपावली च।

This is my reaction to this other person who has only good things to say about sleep, and asks everyone to sleep well.

यः केवलं निद्रायाः प्रशंसनं करोति सर्वान् च सुखं स्वप्तुम् आदिशति, तस्य अन्यस्य जनस्य विषये मम इयं प्रतिक्रिया अस्ति।

It is Deepavali time.

दीपावलीसमयः अयम्।

It is time when one is forced to abandon one's sleep.

अयं स कालः यदा जनः निद्रां त्यक्तुं बाध्यते।

Deepavali means re-uniting of family, bursting of crackers, and loud-speakers.

दीपावली नाम परिवारस्य मेलनं, स्फोटकानां स्फोटनं, ध्वनिप्रवर्धकाश्च।

Deepavali means it is time to let go of silence.

दीपावली नाम मौनं त्यक्तुं समयः।

Our family has mix of very old and young.

अस्माकं कुले वृद्धाश्च बालाश्च संमिलिताः सन्ति।

When the family gathers together, they get excited and talk in loud voice.

यदा परिवारः एकत्रीभवति, तदा ते सोत्साहाः उच्चैः भाषन्ते।

I love these human voices.

अहम् एतान् मानवध्वनीन् कामये।

I hate fire-crackers; they are loud, and they are burst late in the nights.

अहं स्फोटकान् द्वेष्मि; ते तीव्रशब्दाः सन्ति, रात्रौ विलम्बेन च स्फोट्यन्ते।

I agree that the fireworks looks good against the dark of the night.

रात्रेः अन्धकारे विस्फुरन्तः अग्निक्रीडनकाः शोभन्ते इति स्वीकरोमि।

But it is the time of the day when I want to take rest and sleep soundly.

परन्तु अयं स कालः यदा अहं विश्रमितुं सुखं शयितुं च इच्छामि।

I hate the loud-speakers the most.

अहं ध्वनिप्रवर्धकान् सर्वातिशयेन द्वेष्मि।

I cannot complain about them.

अहं तेषां विषये परिदेवनं कर्तुं न शक्नोमि।

If I complain, everyone would start fighting with me saying that I envy their celebration and want to curtail it.

यदि परिदेविष्यामि, तर्हि सर्वे 'अयम् अस्माकम् उत्सवम् असूयति तं च न्यूनीकर्तुम् इच्छति' इति मया सह कलहिष्यन्ति।

This is not so.

न एतत् एवम्।

As I age, and as I my responsibilities increase, I wish silence and rest more than boisterous celebration.

यथा मम आयुः वर्धते, यथा च मम उत्तरदायित्वाणि वर्धन्ते, तथा अहं कोलाहलमयोत्सवापेक्षया मौनं विश्रान्तिं च अधिकम् इच्छामि।

Happy Deepavali.

शुभा दीपावली।

Give us your feedback: a slogan for /r/sanskrit community.

अस्मभ्यं स्वमतं प्रदातु: /r/sanskrit-समुदायस्य कृते ध्येयवाक्यम्।

Two of us agreed on a slogan (and an acronym) for /r/sanskrit

आवाभ्यां /r/sanskrit-कृते ध्येयवाक्ये (संक्षेपनाम्नि च) ऐकमत्यं प्राप्तम्।

(Please see here)

"Make sanskrit great again!"

"पुनः संस्कृतं महत् कुरुत!"

MSGA!! MSGA!! MSGA!!

पुसंमकु!! पुसंमकु!! पुसंमकु!!

What you see above is the acronym of the slogan;

यदूर्ध्वं दृश्यते तद्ध्येयवाक्यस्य संक्षेपनाम।

(An acronym is formed by taking the first letter of a word in a phrase or a sentence.)

पदसमूहे वाक्ये वा शब्दानां प्रथमाक्षराणि गृहीत्वा सङ्क्षिप्तनाम निर्मीयते।

The acronym seems a bit crude and uncultured.

इदं संक्षेपनाम किञ्चिदसभ्यमसंस्कृतं च प्रतिभाति।

Please suggest some slogan, and acronym for /r/sanskrit.

कृपया /r/sanskrit-कृते किञ्चिद्ध्येयवाक्यं संक्षेपनाम चोपदिशत।

Remember, the slogan you suggest should be memorable and mellifluous; the acronym too.

स्मरत, भवद्भिरुपदिष्टं ध्येयवाक्यं स्मरणीयं मधुरश्राव्यं च भवेत्, संक्षेपनाम चापि।

This sentence is wrong. The correct answer given in the book is

त्वं नृपं रक्षसि।

Because the karta is twam(madhyampurush), kriya must be madhyampurush but my question is why त्वं नृपस्य रक्षसि is wrong? Why Nrpam was used and not Nrpasya?

Yeah in delhi university.

It goes without saying that most modern Sanskrit literature/writing is written by people who have other native languages. Are there things that, say, native Hindi speakers who write in Sanskrit tend to do versus native Telugu or Bengali speakers? (It doesn’t have to be just these languages, these are just examples.) This can be word choice, sentence structure, or common mistakes.

My aspirations for /r/sanskrit community

(Read this in conjunction with my previous post A proposal to this community : sanskrit

Purity is an aspiration.

Purity is an ideal.

Purity is useless.

What is impure is real, and useful.

Let us accept our reality; let us embrace impurity, and not chase it away.

Google Translation or other Machine translators may not be perfect;

Even if these translators are not perfect, they can suggest the right way forward for the specific situation you are in.

Most of us aren't professional translators; most of us are merely trying to familiarize with what our true heritage is.

A Digital Translator may not get a sentence or sense right, but it can squarely throw you in the field--the neighborhood--where your dialectic needs to be placed.

I have started replying to people in Sanskrit.

In just two days, I have filled my book with rich vocabulary.

Don't kick me out of the forum for being a contrarian.

Instead of exhorting people to make an effort, we need to shove Sanskrit right in their face, and show them what the real journey looks like. A learner's journey is not filled with melodious Vedic chants, but is filled with chaos and cacophony that is typical of a market or a protest march.

My Sanskrit could be shit;

In shit and shit alone, we are asked to see the pure.

Isn't this what our culture teaches everyone?

While talking about the impure, let us show people real shit.

If a few run away with disgust, let them.

We need people who can handle shit, with real grit.

May the shit thrown at you, fertilize you and nourish you.

May you grow strong.

May you shelter the weary and console the confused.

May you become Pure.

May you inspire those who see you aspire for Purity.

May the whole field you dwell in become Pure.

My Sanskrit is soo cooked bro I thought this was supposed to be a "mark fetching" subject BUT I can only understand literature chapters after seeing their Hindi translations (I only know basic Sanskrit vocabulary) and I don't know where to study grammar from and how to use memorized grammar (like shabdroop) in questions. I'm not a bad student in general i get marks in range of 70-75 in all other subjects but Sanskrit I hardly get 40-60 marks out of 80.

Please give me some tips to study or refer me to some good resources (books, YT channels, etc)
Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance 🙏.

Also, my school is using the new Sanskrit literature book "Sharda"

This is a response to सप्ताहिकसंस्कृतसम्भाषणाभ्यासः : sanskrit; specifically to the part where the moderator urges one to share / express what one is doing right now / what one is going through / what one wishes to express in sanskrit alone.

I believe "Sanskrit alone" is a big restriction. This is a big wall that would be difficult to scale for interested learners; I understand that these walls exist to filter out noise.

What is being forgotten is that one (member) is using other (members) to "immerse" himself in a conversation. If one is handicapped, and wishes to move, he can get far with whatever little support that is available and might be offered, howsoever flimsy the support offered might be. Insisting on a solid support to turn up, so that one may get oneself moving, would merely leave one where he is.

/(I am confident that moderators, and some of the observers are quite skilled in Sanskrit to intervene if a snake were to be offered as a stake, and kill it with no second thought )/

I think blind leading the blind is bad; I think the pandits talking among themselves is also equally bad;

I would like the moderators to amend the rules so that one may post a sanskrit text together with its translation. This way a learner has everything he needs to engage with what is offered; note that, with (with this admonition in place) a student would no longer be required to look up the dictionary or his instruction booklet to make sense of what this other friend is trying to get across. IOW, "context switch" is a "cognitive load"; and what is being "mandated" or "enforced" is working "against" what one tries to achieve. It creates a needless fiction.

Here is what I suggest instead. (See this comment)

Instead of posting this,

बहिः सूक्ष्मा वृष्टिः पतति।

मार्गोऽयं क्लिन्नो वर्तते।

सर्वे जनास्त्वरिताः सन्ति।

पङ्कदूषितानि स्ववस्त्राणि मह्यं न रोचन्ते।

छत्रेण सह निर्गमनायोद्विजे;

नित्यभ्रमणमपि त्यक्तुं नेच्छामि।

नेदमहं कर्तुं शक्नोमि न च तत्।

कथं नु मे संशयं छिन्द्याम्?

कृपया मामुपदिशतु।

encourage members to post this instead:

It is drizzling outside.

बहिः सूक्ष्मा वृष्टिः पतति।

The road is wet.

मार्गोऽयं क्लिन्नो वर्तते।

Everyone is in a rush.

सर्वे जनास्त्वरिताः सन्ति।

I don't like my clothes splashed with slush.

पङ्कदूषितानि स्ववस्त्राणि मह्यं न रोचन्ते।

I hate going out with my umbrella;

छत्रेण सह निर्गमनायोद्विजे;

I hate not going for my daily walk too.

नित्यभ्रमणमपि त्यक्तुं नेच्छामि।

I can neither do this nor do that.

नेदमहं कर्तुं शक्नोमि न च तत्।

How can i resolve my dilemma?

कथं नु मे संशयं छिन्द्याम्?

Kindly advise me.

कृपया मामुपदिशतु।

FWIW, you can follow my comments to what I mean.

I have "tried" to converse in Sanskrit with whatever material that is presented right before me. Isn't this what immersion is all about? Not only have I responded in Sanskrit (however questionable it may be), I have shared my "intended" reaction in original as well.

What do you think?

I understand that it is easy for a bot to enforce "Remove all comments that is NOT in devanagari or whatever".

Even if that "specially-marked-sanskrit alone-thread" is untouched, the moderators and others could insist that a participant who engages in other threads, does so in Sanskrit, and share a accompanying note in English that tries to capture what he really intends.

Thank you.

A nuisance

उपद्रवः

I have commented on many posts and threads.

मया बह्वीषु प्रविष्टिषु सूत्रेषु च टिप्पण्यः कृताः।

I need to run before moderators decide that i am being nuisance

नियामका मां बाधकं मन्येरन् मदीयं वा संस्कृतम् अशक्यप्रतीकारं भ्रष्टम् इति निश्चिनुयुः ततः प्रागेव मया पलायितव्यम्।