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Level 3 · पठनम्
Reading the Classics
Ten classes. The forms that carry real Sanskrit prose and verse — past tense, the gerund, the participle — then the seams, the compounds, and a whole Gītā verse read aloud.
▤Print the worksheets for this level
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These classes assume you can read a simple sentence and know the eight endings. If that is not yet true, finish Level 2 · Everyday Sanskrit first. Nothing here is locked.
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Checkpoint · परीक्षा
Split the seam · name the relation · when did it happen.
The Reading Room · पठनशाला
Open an unseen śloka by hand, and read Gītā 2.47 aloud.
Every exercise these classes use is open at full size in the Practice Room.
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Hear it श्रवणम्
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Real sentences at reading speed. Let them run once before you look at the English.
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Meet it दर्शनम्
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Practise it अभ्यासः
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◗)) hear it
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Nothing here counts against you. Run it again whenever you like.
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Work the sheet कार्यपत्रम्
The exercises that print for this class, worked here — by hand, by ear, or both.
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Say it वचनम्
Read these aloud. Sanskrit was made to be heard, and silent reading came to it late; the sound is half the sense.
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Keep it धारणम्
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