Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) with Acharya Vishweshwara N M
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From the very first letter to reading Sanskrit texts on your own.
Sanskrit opens up one sound at a time. I begin every student by listening to how they say the letters, and we build from there, slowly and properly.
Grammar is the backbone of how I teach. Without it you can memorise words, but you can’t really read. Our tradition says it plainly: without vyakarana, there is no real knowledge of Sanskrit.
How I teach Sanskrit
Sound comes first
Every vowel and consonant is corrected live: short, long and extended sounds, aspirated and unaspirated letters, anusvara and visarga. Clean pronunciation now saves years later.
Devanagari by hand
You write every day. Writing the letters by hand fixes them in memory far better than typing ever does.
Grammar, one layer at a time
Sentences first, then noun forms (shabda rupa), then verb forms (dhatu rupa), then sandhi, samasa and karaka. Each layer rests on the one before it.
Reading real Sanskrit
Words become sentences, sentences become stories, and slowly you’re reading shlokas and subhashitas without needing a translation.
For children: Samskrita Foundation Program
An 18-month course for children aged 8 to 14. Shlokas, stories and everyday words, with the same careful grammar underneath, at a pace a child enjoys.
- Live classes in a small batch
- Pronunciation and Devanagari writing from day one
- Steady progress parents can see
For adults: Start from zero, or where you are
Many adults come because they want to read the Gita or the Upanishads in the original. You can start from scratch, or I’ll check your level and we’ll begin at the right step.
- Beginner, intermediate or advanced
- Laghu Siddhanta Kaumudi for serious students
- Classes that fit around work
Three levels, six stages
The full path usually takes 18 to 24 months. Everyone moves forward when they’re ready, not when the calendar says so.
Level 1 · Beginner, from scratch: Sounds, script and simple sentences (About 5 to 7 months)
Stage I (Samskrita Pravesha) and Stage II (Vakya Nirmana). You learn to say every letter correctly, write Devanagari, and start speaking simple Sanskrit.
- Vowels, consonants and their correct sounds
- Devanagari writing practice
- Words for the body, food, objects and numbers
- Introducing yourself in Sanskrit
- Pronouns, gender and number
- Question words and simple sentences
Level 2 · Intermediate: How words change (About 6 to 8 months)
Stage III (Shabda Rupa) and Stage IV (Dhatu Rupa). You see how nouns and verbs change their form, and why.
- Noun forms: Rama, Rama (feminine), Phala, Hari, Guru, Pitr
- Pronouns: asmad, yushmad, tad, kim
- The seven vibhaktis (cases)
- Common dhatus and their forms
- Present, past, future and command (lat, lan, lrt, lot)
Level 3 · Advanced: Traditional grammar (About 7 to 9 months)
Stage V (Vyakarana Pravesha) and Stage VI (Shastra Samskritam). Formal grammar, and then the Laghu Siddhanta Kaumudi, so you can open a text and read it yourself.
- Sandhi: vowel, consonant and visarga
- Samasa: tatpurusha, karmadharaya, dvandva, bahuvrihi
- Karaka: how a sentence really works
- Laghu Siddhanta Kaumudi, selected prakaranas
- Reading shlokas, subhashitas and small granthas
Ways to learn
One-to-one
Just you and me, live online. We go at your pace, at a time that suits your time zone, and every class is shaped around where you are.
- Timings fixed together, across time zones
- Every mistake corrected on the spot
- For children and adults, any level
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Group: children’s batch
The Samskrita Foundation Program is taught in a live batch. Children learn together, recite together, and keep each other going.
- 18-month course for ages 8 to 14
- Live online classes in a batch
- Ask me about the next batch