Dr. Sheesh Shivaroopam
Hold 360 seeds of meaning. Watch the depth and breadth of Sanskrit unfold.Sanskrit grows from the dhātu, the verbal root: a seed of core meaning that never stands still. From the early Vedic age through the later Vedic period into Classical Sanskrit, the same dhātu keeps giving birth to new words, and every one of them traces back to that core.Grasp the core, and a whole family of words falls into place. These 360 dhātus make you familiar with thousands of Sanskrit words, giving you the language’s depth and breadth in far less time than word-by-word study.Chosen with care from the traditional Dhātupāṭha, they are the dhātus behind the words you are most likely to meet in the Vedas, Upaniṣads, Yoga-sūtra, mantras and the philosophical literature of Sanskrit. Your gateway to the true wisdom of ancient Sanskrit, read through the very words its authors chose.Every dhātu comes with:Devanāgarī, IAST, Hindi-style pronunciation and IPACore meaning, with its Vedic and Classical developmentKey derivatives, from concrete action to abstract ideaDhātupāṭha reference, class and Proto-Indo-European originsSee how a handful of prefixes bend one dhātu into many meanings. Then look up any word among 3,000+ indexed entries and land at once on its dhātu and its whole family.This is not a grammar to survive or a dictionary to search. It is the key that makes Sanskrit make sense.Begin with 360 seeds. Read Sanskrit the way it was built.
