Description
Learn Bhagavad Geeta (Ch. 4) and Intermediate Samskritam
Course Description:
In this course students will continue growing their knowledge of Bhagavad Geeta gained from the prior courses SAN1011 to SAN1023, to improve their grasp of Sanskrit Language structures, aptly illustrated through Shlokas of the Bhagavad Geeta from Chapter 4. Students will enhance their Sanskrit writing and speaking abilities.
Using special handouts, each verse of the Bhagavad Geeta will be expounded to unravel the inner meaning of the verse as well as grammatical structures of the language. Students will be able to more formally study Bhagavad Geeta in its native Sanskrit medium, with increased fluency.
Course Content:
This course is the 8th in a 16-course sequence which constitutes the Certificate Program in Bhagavad Geeta through Samskritam. In this course, the Faculty will lead the students verse by verse, in sequence through the Bhagavad Geeta, while simultaneously unfolding both the meanings of the verses in Chapter 3 as well as the nuances of the language.
This course will also introduce students to the following elements of the Sanskrit language: additional study of compounds, deconstructive analysis of shlokas, detail the building blocks of each, elucidate meanings and structures, clauses, and locative continuous, passive, impersonal structures, adverbs as well as grammatical aspects of original Sanskrit language sentences and formations found in the Bhagavad Geeta source text.
Learning Objectives:
In this course, students will be able to relate to words and expressions from the Bhagavad Geeta in the following areas:
- Study of additional types of Sanskrit compounds.
- Clauses, and locative continuous, passive, impersonal structures.
- Use of adverb suffixes in sentence structure.
- Proficiency in word analysis and intrinsic sequencing of shlokas.
- Research grammatical aspects of Bhagavad Geeta chapters 1 to 4.
Required / Elective: Required
Prerequisites: Admission into the Certificate Program in Bhagavad Geeta through Sanskrit, completion of SAN1023
Faculty / Instructor: Shri. Chandrasekar Raghu, Shri Satish Srinivasan, Dr. Shraddha Modi
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Day: Sundays
Time: 08:00 PM EST – 09:30 PM EST
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