Prefix Arrows — Deva Bhāṣā
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A small word in front turns the whole meaning

गच्छति goes. आगच्छति comes. निर्गच्छति goes out, सङ्गच्छति goes together. Twenty-two prefixes, and each one is an arrow pointing the root somewhere new.

Choose a root, then send it somewhere
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The arrows themselves
Each prefix keeps its direction across every root it touches. Learn the arrow once and it pays out a thousand times.
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Root plus arrow is how Sanskrit builds most of its vocabulary. You are no longer guessing at long words — you are reading their parts.
Point any of these 16 arrows at any of 110 roots →