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Level 5 · धातुः · स्वरः
Roots & Chanting
Eight classes. The engine underneath the language — roots, prefixes, the numbers, Pāṇini's fourteen sound-lines and his rules — and then the oldest music the language has: three tones, and the Gāyatrī.
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This level looks under the floorboards, and it helps to have read some poetry first. If you have not, finish Level 4 · Poetry & Ornament first. Nothing here is locked.
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When the eight are done
Checkpoint · परीक्षा
Find the root · read the pratyāhāra · place the tone.
The Sanctum · गर्भगृहम्
Build ten words, read an unseen sūtra and apply it, chant the Gāyatrī through.
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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The oldest things in this level — the Veda's three tones and the Gāyatrī — were carried by ear for something like three thousand years before they were written down, and Pāṇini's rules were memorised for centuries before anyone copied them. Start the way they were kept.
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Meet it दर्शनम्
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Practise it अभ्यासः
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Nothing here counts against you. Run it again whenever you like.
Run it again
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
Aloud, unhurried, and more than once. In this level saying it is not practice for something else — it is the thing itself.
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Keep it धारणम्
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