Pre Requirement: Knowledge of Devanagari script - alphabet, i.e. vowels, consonant vowel combination, two consonant combinations, special conjunct consonants and their pronunciation associated with their articulation.

Faculty may test the compatibility of the student by conducting suitable test

Text Book:
Dr. Sarasvati Mohan, Samskrta Level-1, Sharadh Enterprises, Bangalore.

Chapter 1 (3 hours)
Verb roots, nine forms for three persons and three numbers; practise all the verb roots and their forms for correct pronunciation; usage of prefixes and how they change the meaning of the verb root and how to find them in the dictionary.

Chapter 2 (7 hours)
Noun, masculine and neuter genders; 8 cases and their possible meanings; 24 forms of a noun and its declensions; practise of other similar declensions and usage of the 24 forms of a noun. Introduction to write a sentence; syntax, prepositions and their definite requirements of cases; rule how ‘ra/sha’ changes dental ‘n’ to cerebral ‘N’ and its exceptions for this rule; repeat declensions for pronunciation.

Chapter 3 (7 hours)
Noun- feminine gender; both ā ending and i-ending and practice of similar declensions. Practice of writing sentences with words mainly in feminine gender; exercises mainly for the feminine gender illustration; special declensions where dental ‘n’ changes to cerebral ‘N’; repeat all feminine noun declensions.

Chapter 4 (3 hours)
Madhurashtakam illustrating all the three genders of nouns and study of the adjectives, having all the three genders and changing according to the gender of different qualified nouns; Midterm examination

Chapter 5 (10 hours)
ex 32-38 ; models of declensions; how to recognize a gender or find the gender using the dictionary and write declensions of new words according to their models of declensions, while applying the rule changing dental ‘n’ to cerebral ‘N’; making simple sentences for all the words given there; repeat vowel-ending model declensions.

Chapter 6 (10 hours)
Exercises for appropriate use of the cases; irregular verbs; absence of verb root “to have” in Samskrta; where to omit root ‘AS’ (to be), use of certain special verbs; repeat model declensions

Chapter 7 (10 hours)
Pronouns: Introduction to pronouns; declensions of pronouns; corresponding translations of pronouns into English; forming sentences with pronouns; Different aspects of pronouns being used as demonstrative pronouns and as interrogative pronouns and details of distance specification..

Chapter 8 (10 hours)
- Sandhi explanation; three major kinds of Sandhi: Vowel-Sandhi, Visarga-Sandhi and Consonant- Sandhi, and fifteen exercises.
- Parasmaipadi (P) and Atmanepadi (A) forms of verbs;
- Verb and ten Ganas; how to find the Gana using the Apte Samskrta -English Dictionary
- Verb and ten Lakaras; mastering five Lakāras of both Parasmaipadi and Atmanepadi and doing the pertaining exercises for that.

Text Books:
1. Dr. Sarasvati Mohan, Samskrta Level-2, Samskrta Academy
2. Dr. Sarasvati Mohan, Samskrta-English-Samskrta Dictionary, Samskrta Academy.
3. Dr. Sarasvati Mohan, Samskrta Level-3, Samskrta Academy
4. Vaman Sivaram Apte, Samskrta-English Dictionary, Samskrita Academy

Reference Books:
1. Samskrtabhasadipika, Sri Surasaraswati Sabha (R) Sringeri, Bangalore, 2003.