śikṣā

Traditionally, Sanskrit education starts with phonetics, the study of speech sounds and how to pronounce them. The books here introduce and describe the various Sanskrit sounds.

Although these books use few unique words, their technical content may make them harder to understand. If you are not interested in phonetics, you can skip these books for now.

uccāraṇam

— Pronunciation —

• Title Word counts
• varṇāḥ 15 unique, 411 total
• svarāḥ 19 unique, 778 total
• vyañjanāni 23 unique, 822 total
• sthānāni 27 unique, 809 total

sandhiḥ

— Sound combinations —

• Title Word counts
• sandhiḥ 29 unique, 678 total
• svara­sandhiḥ 28 unique, 855 total