Sanskrit

The script, numbers and grammar behind the Sanskrit chants on this site.

Characters

Devanagari vowels and consonants with their IAST spelling, grouped by where in the mouth you make each sound.

Zero through the tens, and the few sandhi rules that build every larger number from them.

Cases, verb endings and compounds: the rules that build Classical Sanskrit words.

How Vedic Sanskrit, the language of the Rudram chants, differs from the Classical grammar on the Grammar page.

Sanskrit and Tamil side by side, letters and grammar: where the two unrelated languages line up and where they don't.