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. The tradition counts twenty-two prefixes; sixteen of them are here, and each one is an arrow pointing the root somewhere new.

Choose a root, then send it somewhere
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Each prefix has a home direction that shows through most of the roots it touches — learn the arrow once and it pays out again and again. But the finished word is not always arithmetic: प्र + हृ is strike, not carry-forward. Take the arrow as your first guess and the word's own gloss as the answer.
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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.
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