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A new YouTube course teaches Sanskrit from zero, in Hindi, lesson by lesson through Samskrita Bharati’s beginner textbook. Its first class is about the first thing anyone learns in a new language: how to say your name.
A new YouTube channel, Ajñānavimokaḥ, has begun a lesson-by-lesson video course on Bhāṣāpraveśaḥ (“Entering the Language”), the beginner’s Sanskrit textbook published by Samskrita Bharati. The teacher, who introduces himself as Pt. Rupesh, explains each lesson in simple Hindi for students who have never studied Sanskrit. The first class, on Part 1, Lesson 1, was published on 21 October 2026 and runs about 19 minutes.[1]
Bhāṣāpraveśaḥ is Samskrita Bharati’s two-part course for learning to read and speak simple Sanskrit, with about fifty lessons across both parts, from introductions and basic pronouns to the present and past tenses, the commonly used cases and simple sentence patterns. The book is meant to follow Samskrita Bharati’s 15-day spoken-Sanskrit camps (sambhāṣaṇa-śibira), but the teacher tells viewers that no earlier camp is needed: he will explain everything in Hindi from the beginning.[1]
He opens with an invocation to Gaṇeśa and then reads the book’s preface with the class: it welcomes students who have resolved to learn Sanskrit, asks them to read every lesson aloud wherever the book says so, to set aside a little time every day, and to take doubts to their teacher, which he invites viewers to do in the comments.[1]
The first lesson teaches how to introduce yourself and ask someone’s name, using three words: mama (“my”), bhavataḥ (“your”, to a man) and bhavatyāḥ (“your”, to a woman).[1]
Kim (“what”) marks the question. Masculine names in the answer end in a visarga (Gaṇeśaḥ, Kṛṣṇaḥ), feminine ones in long -ā (Sītā, Latā). The lesson ends with fill-in-the-blank exercises in which the student chooses bhavataḥ or bhavatyāḥ according to who is being asked. Rather than memorising, the teacher says, students should use the phrases with others until they come naturally.[1]
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