confused16
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Hello, not sure if this is the right forum for this question - it is sanskrit related.
I am having some difficulty in reading sanskrit shlokas where there are a lot of words ending with visargam. This is because my knowledge of the devanagri script comes from my learning hindi as 2nd lang. throughout school.
Does anyone know any good online resources to learn the rules for pronunciation and sandhi with the same.
Also I am suprised by publications like giri whose shloka books are bought by the masses (all of them may not be sanskrit pandithars) choosing to print the shlokas with words with visargams in the middle without doing the necessary substitutions and joining the words - this seems to be a very simple thing to do to make non-sanskrit educated people pronunce shlokas better. I have even seen one of those books with shlokas in tamil-brahmi script, with the visargas carried over! (that too in words in the middle of the shloka lines, where sandhi rules will definitely apply, as opposed to the last words like namaha where there is no such extra work for the brain)
Edit: Special mention to my mother forcing me to study hindi which I hated back then, without which the knowledge of such an important script to our way of life wouldn't have come to me so easily
I am having some difficulty in reading sanskrit shlokas where there are a lot of words ending with visargam. This is because my knowledge of the devanagri script comes from my learning hindi as 2nd lang. throughout school.
Does anyone know any good online resources to learn the rules for pronunciation and sandhi with the same.
Also I am suprised by publications like giri whose shloka books are bought by the masses (all of them may not be sanskrit pandithars) choosing to print the shlokas with words with visargams in the middle without doing the necessary substitutions and joining the words - this seems to be a very simple thing to do to make non-sanskrit educated people pronunce shlokas better. I have even seen one of those books with shlokas in tamil-brahmi script, with the visargas carried over! (that too in words in the middle of the shloka lines, where sandhi rules will definitely apply, as opposed to the last words like namaha where there is no such extra work for the brain)
Edit: Special mention to my mother forcing me to study hindi which I hated back then, without which the knowledge of such an important script to our way of life wouldn't have come to me so easily
, although might be a little above my grade in that I don't know most off the terms referenced. (also such an integral work on a historic language being authored by a foreigner was suprising)
