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From Alphabet to Insight: Your Sanskrit Learning Roadmap

From Alphabet to Insight:
Your Sanskrit Learning Roadmap

Recent Webinar: Saturday, December 6, 2025, 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 10:30 pm IST

From Alphabet to Insight_ Your Sanskrit Learning Roadmap

About the Webinar:

Are you drawn to the Vedas, Upaniṣads, and the timeless wisdom of the Hindu world, but wish you could access these texts in their original language?

Join our Coordinator for Sanskrit Studies – Smt. Parvathi Sriram and her co-panelists for an insightful introduction to HUA’s Certificate in Sanskrit Proficiency for Vedic Studies Program — a thoughtfully designed, multi-level program that guides absolute beginners all the way to confidently reading, understanding, and interpreting Sanskrit texts.

If you’re unfamiliar with the Devanāgarī script but eager to learn, HUA’s two-part foundational course — Introducing the Sounds and Script of Sanskrit — provides a clear, supportive pathway to mastering the reading, writing, and pronunciation of Sanskrit letters.

Whether you are just beginning or already have some exposure to Saṃskṛtam, this webinar will demonstrate how HUA’s structured progression—from Beginner to Intermediate, Advanced, and finally Proficiency—meets learners at their level and enables steady, systematic growth.

Discover how these programs help students read and write in Devanāgarī, build strong vocabulary and grammar foundations, communicate in spoken and written Sanskrit, and interpret Sanskrit texts while articulating their meaning in English. The session will introduce the faculty, walk through the curriculum, and show how this learning pathway opens direct access to the vast textual heritage of the Hindu tradition—free from reliance on translations or intermediaries.

Get to Know panelists

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Smt. Parvathi Sriram

Smt. Parvathi Sriram serves as the Coordinator of Sanskrit Studies at HUA. A physical therapist by profession, she has over a decade of experience in teaching Samskritam and vedanta.

Know More about Smt. Parvathi Sriram

Shri. Murali Mandyam

Shri. Murali Mandayam just completed the HUA certificate course in Samskrutam proficiency. Murali’s interest in Samskrutam started with his inquisitiveness to understand and appreciate the shlokas he learnt, thus began his journey with Samskruta Bharati before moving to HUA.

Murali completed his Masters in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani in India and has worked for Nokia. Currently, Murali is leading and managing an engineering team developing a predictive analytics dashboard for a leading healthcare company.

Shri. Ajit Bondre

Shri. Ajit Bondre is an Assistant Professor of Sanskrit at Hillside Ayurveda Medical College and a Sanskrit Facilitator at Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidyamandir. He is dedicated to making Sanskrit simple, joyful, and accessible, and is committed to promoting Indian knowledge traditions with clarity and enthusiasm.

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Laghu Siddhanta Kaumudi – Beginner 1

SAN3011 – Laghu-Siddhānta-Kaumudī –Beginner 1 introduces students to the formal and methodical study of Sanskrit grammar through Varadarāja’s Laghu-Siddhānta-Kaumudī, using the edition and translation by Medha Michika. This course lays the foundation for navigating the grammatical framework of Pāṇini by developing a clear understanding of essential terminology, conceptual structures, and the metarules that shape his grammatical system. Special emphasis is placed on the principles governing vowel combinations (ac-sandhi) and their application in real textual contexts. By the end of the course, students will be able to recognize, analyze, and accurately interpret vowel sandhi in Sanskrit prose and verse, including passages...

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Beginning Sanskrit - I

SAN0101 - (SPVS - Required Course) The First Quarter of the Beginner Phase of the Certificate in Sanskrit Proficiency for Vedic Studies, develops students without any prior knowledge of Saṃskṛtam, in the skills of listening, reading, and writing Saṃskṛtam in Devanāgarī script. At the end of this course, students will develop the ability to pronounce and write single, combination and conjunct Devanāgarī letters, build basic vocabulary, and recite a few simple Saṃskṛtam verses with the correct pronunciation. This course Beginning Sanskrit assumes no prior knowledge of Saṃskṛtam script or language. The medium of instruction is English, and the course is...

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