संस्कृतव्याकरणम् · a tutorial series

Sanskrit grammar,
one topic at a time

Twenty-four illustrated lecture notes. Each teaches its topic in prose first — the rules, with worked examples — and then lets you run the derivation yourself, step by step, with the sūtra behind every step.

24 of 24 written. Paradigms and derivations are generated from the Aṣṭādhyāyī corpus, so the tables here and the reference site cannot disagree.

There is a second tier of twelve on how the grammar itself is built — read these first.

धातु — root प्रत्यय — affix आगम — inserted material

I · Sound and script

01माहेश्वरसूत्राणिthe fourteen sūtras and every pratyāhāra 02उच्चारणस्थानम्where each sound is made 03सन्धिःwhat happens when words meet 04स्वरःpitch accent, and where the record is silent

II · The noun

05शब्दरूपाणिdeclension, stem family by stem family 06लिङ्गम्how to know a noun’s gender 07सर्वनामानिthe pronouns and their suppletive stems 08कारकम्the six roles and the cases that mark them 09समासःcompounds, and which member governs 10सङ्ख्याnumerals, ordinals, and counting

III · The verb

11लकाराःthe ten tenses and moods 12धातुरूपाणिthe ten classes and their stems 13प्रयोगःone event in three voices 14सनादिप्रत्ययाःcausative, desiderative, intensive 15उपसर्गाःtwenty-two prefixes and what they do

IV · Derived words

16कृत्प्रत्ययाःthe affixes that make words from roots 17कृदन्तानिthe participles 18क्त्वा · ल्यप् · तुमुन्gerund and infinitive 19तद्धितप्रत्ययाःthe affixes that make words from words 20अव्ययानिthe indeclinables that carry the tone

V · Sentence and verse

21वाक्यरचनाagreement, order, and the usual errors 22छन्दःreading laghu and guru, and the metres 23कालःtime, tithi, and writing a date

VI · Vocabulary in the world

24शब्दकोशःvocabulary by setting