The information provided in this page is a revised version of the text presented at this site when the Learn Sanskrit through Self Study series was started in October 1997. Though at that time the members of Samskritapriyah were very optimistic about completing the series within a few months, several factors resulted in delays that amounted to almost three years. The Multilingual software from IIT Madras was being enhanced to provide additional flexibility in viewing and printing and the members felt that giving a complete series was important, even if it meant delays. The encouraging responses which continued to be received had  established the usefulness of the first four lessons but many had wondered if Samskritapriyah had given up on completing the lessons.  Fortunately, the lessons had all been prepared and were only waiting to be displayed in the new format.

  The full set of twelve lessons is now presented along with a lot of reference information and glossaries. An on-line Sanskrit dictionary is also included as well as the full text of  the Bhagavadgita with concordances and word meanings.  Viewers who would like to interact with Samskritapriyah are encouraged to use email in Devanagari and correspond with the members, or from time to time use the chat facility which allows Devanagari text to be included. Off-line reading of the lessons is also provided for and viewers may download the lessons in an appropriate form. Links on the right  may be used to advantage.

The first of these Lessons was put on the web on Oct.11, 1997, which was Vijayadasami Day, probably the most appropriate day to begin the lessons.  Considering the fact that the series is now complete, the delay of three years may kindly be condoned.

Portions of the lessons will be shown as images on your web browser. Therefore, it will be necessary for you to enable loading of inline images (gif images). It is possible to download the lessons and study the same off-line.  The link provided on the right would allow viewers to download the Multilingual software for this purpose. 

Note on Sound files 

For the benefit of the students, we have tried to make available sound files which can be heard on systems supporting sound. Typically, this means that you should have a sound card or appropriate sound hardware on your computer. 

The web browsers are capable of automatically invoking the sound playing programs when you click on the links for sound. It is possible that your web browser is already configured to correctly identify this program and so you should hear the sound when you click on the sound links.

However, owing to the variety of sound file formats, it is possible that what you hear is not what was intended to be heard! Such problems continue to confront us since very few agree on what we would like to call "people's standards".  Sound files in the Real Audio format are now reasonably standard and most web browsers can invoke the Real player program to play the audio files.  The sound files included here conform to the Real Audio format. Please make sure that your web browser is configured to handle this format.

Introduction to the Devanagari Script: (Oct.11, 1997)
Revised : Feb. 2001

Lesson 1: (Oct.30, 1997)
Revised: Feb. 2001

Lesson 2: (Nov.14, 1997)
Revised: Feb. 2001

Lesson 3: (Dec.24, 1997)
Revised: Feb. 2001

A very short quiz 
Revised  Mar. 2001

Lesson 4: (Feb.27,1998)
Revised: Feb. 2001

Lesson 5: (Aug. 8, 2001)
First version

Lesson 6: (Aug. 10, 2001)
(First version)

Lesson 7: (Aug. 29, 2001)
(First Version)

Lesson 8: (Aug. 31, 2001)
(First Version)

Lesson 9: (Sep. 30, 2001)
(First Version)

Lesson 10: (Oct.25, 2001)
(First Version)

Lesson 11: (Oct. 22, 2001)
(First Version)

Lesson 12: (Oct. 22, 2001)
(First Version)

(The first twelve in the originally envisaged set of lessons have now been placed here in these pages. The members of Samskritapriyah express their gratitude to all the readers who sent messages of encouragement. We started the lessons on Vijayadasami Day in 1997. We are fortunate in that we are able to offer the full series on a Vijayadasami Day again (Oct.27, 2001).