This site is organized according to the lessons in Madhav Deshpande’s संस्कृतसुबोधिनी Saṁskṛtasubodhinī: A Sanskrit Primer. Anyone who plans on making serious use of this site should purchase a copy of that textbook. For the sake of reference, the subjects of the Lessons (in the dropdown menu above) are as follows:

Nouns
Pronouns
Adjectives
Sandhi
Other

Lesson	Subject	Page
2	Personal Pronouns: Nominative	30
3	Masculine and Neuter Nouns in अ	35
	Personal Pronouns: Accusative	37
5	Explanation of Cases	53
7	Declensions of Personal Pronouns	67
8	Feminine Nouns in आ, ई, ऊ	73
	Pronouns: किम्, यद्, एतद्	74
9	Masculine Nouns in इ and उ	79
	Feminine Nouns in इ and उ	80
13	Masculine and Feminine Nouns in ऋ	107
14	Neuter Nouns in इ, उ, ऋ	113
	Adjectives	114
18	Irregular and Rare Nouns ending in vowels	145
19	Nouns Ending in Consonants: One-stem type	155
23	Demonstrative Pronouns इदम् and अदस्	185
	Nouns with Two Stems	186
24	More Nouns with Two Stems, Nouns with Three Stems	191
	Degrees of Comparison	196
32	Compounds (समास)	261
34	Sanskrit Numerals	285
44	Irregular consonant-ending nouns	385

Lesson	Subject	Page
1	Verbs: First Conjugation, active (परस्मैपदिन्) present tense	29
4	Verbs: Fourth, Sixth, Tenth Conjugations, active (परस्मैपदिन्)	45
6	Active (परस्मैपदिन्) Verbs: Past Imperfect, Imperative, Potential	61
10	Middle (आत्मनेपदिन्) Verbs: Present Tense	87
11	Middle (आत्मनेपदिन्) Verbs: Past Imperfect, Imperative, Potential	93
12	Gerunds and Infinitives	99
15	Verbs with Prepositions (उपसर्गs)	121
16	The Passive Voice (कर्मणि प्रयोग)	129
17	Future Tense (स्य type)	139
20	Present Active Participles for Active (परस्मैपदिन्) Verbs	165
	Future Active (परस्मैपदिन्) Participles	168
21	Present Active Participles for Middle (आत्मनेपदिन्) Verbs	171

Lesson	Subject	Page

Lesson	Subject	Page

Lesson	Subject	Page

Nominal
Verbal
Indeclinable
Sandhi
Other

Lesson	Subject	Page
2	Personal Pronouns: Nominative	30
3	Masculine and Neuter Nouns in अ	35
	Personal Pronouns: Accusative	37
5	Explanation of Cases	53
7	Declensions of Personal Pronouns	67
8	Feminine Nouns in आ, ई, ऊ	73
	Pronouns: किम्, यद्, एतद्	74
9	Masculine Nouns in इ and उ	79
	Feminine Nouns in इ and उ	80
13	Masculine and Feminine Nouns in ऋ	107
14	Neuter Nouns in इ, उ, ऋ	113
	Adjectives	114
18	Irregular and Rare Nouns ending in vowels	145
19	Nouns Ending in Consonants: One-stem type	155
23	Demonstrative Pronouns इदम् and अदस्	185
	Nouns with Two Stems	186
24	More Nouns with Two Stems, Nouns with Three Stems	191
	Degrees of Comparison	196
32	Compounds (समास)	261
34	Sanskrit Numerals	285
44	Irregular consonant-ending nouns	385

Lesson	Subject	Page
1	Verbs: First Conjugation, active (परस्मैपदिन्) present tense	29
4	Verbs: Fourth, Sixth, Tenth Conjugations, active (परस्मैपदिन्)	45
6	Active (परस्मैपदिन्) Verbs: Past Imperfect, Imperative, Potential	61
10	Middle (आत्मनेपदिन्) Verbs: Present Tense	87
11	Middle (आत्मनेपदिन्) Verbs: Past Imperfect, Imperative, Potential	93
12	Gerunds and Infinitives	99
15	Verbs with Prepositions (उपसर्गs)	121
16	The Passive Voice (कर्मणि प्रयोग)	129
17	Future Tense (स्य type)	139
20	Present Active Participles for Active (परस्मैपदिन्) Verbs	165
	Future Active (परस्मैपदिन्) Participles	168
21	Present Active Participles for Middle (आत्मनेपदिन्) Verbs	171

Lesson	Subject	Page

Lesson	Subject	Page

Lesson	Subject	Page

Lesson	Subject	Page
1	The Sanskrit Alphabet	1
2	Verbs: First Conjugation, active (परस्मैपदिन्) present tense	29
	Personal Pronouns: Nominative	30
3	Masculine and Neuter Nouns in अ	35
	Prepositions	37
	Personal Pronouns: Accusative	37
	Sandhi: anusvāra, visarga	38
4	Verbs: Fourth, Sixth, Tenth Conjugations, active (परस्मैपदिन्)	45
	Negation and Some Connectives: न, च, वा, एव	47
	Sandhi: न् → ण्	48
5	Explanation of Cases	53
6	Active (परस्मैपदिन्) Verbs: Past Imperfect, Imperative, Potential	61
7	Declensions of Personal Pronouns	67
	Use of Indeclinables	68
8	Feminine Nouns in आ, ई, ऊ	73
	Pronouns: किम्, यद्, एतद्	74
9	Masculine Nouns in इ and उ	79
	Feminine Nouns in इ and उ	80
	Sandhi: visarga, vowels	81
10	Middle (आत्मनेपदिन्) Verbs: Present Tense	87
	Sandhi: vowels	88
11	Middle (आत्मनेपदिन्) Verbs: Past Imperfect, Imperative, Potential	93
	Affixes: चित्, चन	94
12	Gerunds and Infinitives	99
13	Masculine and Feminine Nouns in ऋ	107
	Sandhi: consonants	108
14	Neuter Nouns in इ, उ, ऋ	113
	Adjectives	114
15	Verbs with Prepositions (उपसर्गs)	121
16	The Passive Voice (कर्मणि प्रयोग)	129
17	Future Tense (स्य type)	139
18	Irregular and Rare Nouns ending in vowels	145
19	Nouns Ending in Consonants: One-stem type	155
20	Present Active Participles for Active (परस्मैपदिन्) Verbs	165
	Future Active (परस्मैपदिन्) Participles	168
21	Present Active Participles for Middle (आत्मनेपदिन्) Verbs	171
	Present Passive (कर्मणि) Participles	172
22	Past (Imperfect) Participles (in -त and -तवत्)	175
23	Demonstrative Pronouns इदम् and अदस्	185
	Nouns with Two Stems	186
24	More Nouns with Two Stems, Nouns with Three Stems	191
	Degrees of Comparison	196
25	Second conjugation	203
26	Second Conjugation (continued)	213
27	Third Conjugation	223
28	Fifth Conjugation	231
29	Seventh Conjugation	237
30	Eighth Conjugation	245
31	Ninth Conjugation	251
32	Compounds (समास)	261
33	Locative and Genitive Absolutes	279
34	Sanskrit Numerals	285
35	Gerundives, Present Middle participles in आन, Periphrastic (-तास्) Future	293
36	Past Perfect	303
37	Past Aorist	313
38	Conditional Mood	327
	Benedictive Mood	328
39	Secondary Verb Roots	339
	Causative Verbs	339
40	Desiderative Verbs	353
41	Syntax of Ditransitive (द्विकर्मक) Verbs	363
42	Intensive / Frequentative Verbs	371
43	Denominative Verbs	377
44	Gerunds in -अम्	383
	Irregular consonant-ending nouns	385

How to Use This Site

Students in our course will have a fairly regular workflow:

Read through the lesson plan for a given lesson, using the links to the left (e.g., “Lesson 16”). The lesson plan includes learning objectives, course assignments and the course calendar.
Read through the lesson and its vocabulary in Deshpande.
Work through the lesson overview (e.g., “16 Overview” via the lesson’s pop-up menu) and the accompanying videos, which provide a little more detail about the lesson’s grammar, etc.
Listen to Professor Deshpande’s reading of the Sanskrit exercises or story, work through the lesson’s assignment and upload the assigned work (all on the “Exercises” page via the lesson’s pop-up menu).