Sanskrit for Scriptural Study (video)
ISKCON of New Jersey hosted His Grace Radhika Ramana Dasa for a wonderful seminar on “Sanskrit for Scriptural Study”. Please hear and share.
This seminar will give students an appreciation for the beauty and utility of the Sanskrit language. The course will focus on those aspects of the language which are practically useful for the study of Srila Prabhupada’s books. These include a basic familiarity with:
The purpose of Sanskrit study
The structure and scope of the language
Proper pronunciation and recitation of verses
Frequently used verse meters
Rules of euphonic combination (sandhi)
Radhika Ramana dasa (Dr. Ravi M. Gupta) is the Charles Redd Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Religious Studies Program at Utah State University. He is the author or editor of four books, including an abridged translation of the Bhagavata Purana (with Kenneth Valpey), published last year by Columbia University Press. Radhika Ramana completed his doctorate in Hindu Studies at Oxford University and subsequently taught at the University of Florida, Centre College, and the College of William and Mary. He has received four teaching awards, a National Endowment for the Humanities summer fellowship, two research fellowships at Oxford, and a book award. He is a Permanent Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and past president of the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies. He is a disciple of H.H. Hanumatpresaka Swami.
Watch it here: https://goo.gl/m9DmmC