Ekalavya and the Two Birds
Pakṣikā is a small brown bird — sacred in the oldest hymns, the watcher-bird, the one who sees. She tells the young lioness about Ekalavya: the boy who learned alone in the forest, who built a clay teacher from devotion.
This is the first book that does not resolve. The young lioness leaves carrying something she cannot name.
Inside this book:
Three-line Sanskrit sentence-by-sentence throughout — Devanāgarī, IAST, and English
Vocabulary notes for genuinely new words
Sandhi notes for new pattern families only; all previously established patterns trusted