Sanskrit Grammar:
Panini's Ashtadhyayi & Sandhi
Go beyond the basics into Vyakarana — the science of Sanskrit grammar. Study Panini's Ashtadhyayi and its elegant sutra system, master the sandhi rules and compounds (samasa), and see the logic that leads modern linguists and computer scientists to study Sanskrit.
📖 Course Overview
Around the 5th century BCE, Panini described the entire grammar of Sanskrit in the Ashtadhyayi — nearly 4,000 concise sutras — a system so rigorous and complete that it is studied today as a model of formal language and computation.
This advanced course opens that system: how the Ashtadhyayi is organised, the ingenious devices of pratyahara (sound-classes) and it-markers, and the different kinds of sutras. You will then work carefully through the sandhi rules (vowel, consonant and visarga), compounds (samasa) and the karaka (case relations).
This is a course for serious students — ideally after our Sanskrit for Beginners course — who want to understand not just what the rules are, but why Sanskrit is built the way it is.
🎯 What You Will Learn
📚 Curriculum — 10 Weeks · 50 Lessons
👩🏫 Your Teacher
Prof. Harihara Sharma
Prof. Harihara Sharma has devoted his career to Vyakarana — the Paninian science of grammar — and to teaching the Ashtadhyayi to advanced students. He has a rare ability to make Panini’s dense sutras feel logical and even beautiful, connecting them to modern ideas in linguistics and computer science. On Vedanvesha’s Digital Gurukul he guides committed students into the deep structure of Sanskrit.
📜 Your Certificate
Vedanvesha Sanskrit Grammar (Vyakarana) Certificate
Pass the final grammar examination to receive your digitally-signed certificate from Vedanvesha Digital Gurukul — recognising advanced study of Paninian grammar.
⭐ What Early Learners Say
“The pratyahara and it-marker sessions are the clearest I have encountered. Panini finally clicks.”
“I came from an NLP background curious about Panini. This course delivered the rigour I hoped for.”
“Advanced but beautifully structured. The sandhi weeks alone transformed my teaching.”