Siṃhī — Learn Sanskrit. Learn Life.

The workbooks

Learn to write what she learned to hear.

Learn Sanskrit. Learn Life.

Four workbooks that walk beside the stories. Every letter, word and sentence in them comes from the books, in the order the cub received them: met, traced, read aloud, written, and built into speech. Big pages, real practice room, and the sounds read aloud for every one of them.

Alphabet · Sounds and Shape · Words at Work · Sentences

Nothing in them is a quiz. Reading is the check. If a line comes out of your mouth whole, it is yours.

Siṃhī Workbook One: The Sanskrit Alphabet — cover

१The Sanskrit Alphabet · The Song
The forty-six sounds, one to a page, in the order Vajra gave them to the cub. You meet a sound, you see where it lives in the mouth, you hear it read aloud, you trace it stroke by stroke, and you read it among the ones you already have. Every few sounds the book turns back and asks for them again, out of order, the way memory actually keeps things.

Pronunciation is built in: an English sound-alike for every letter, a mouth map, and a code on every page that plays the sound at The Sounds. Walks beside Gāyatrī’s Song.

Coming soon · 8.5 × 11 paperback

Siṃhī Workbook Two: Sanskrit Sounds and Shape — cover

२Sanskrit Sounds and Shape · Sounds and Shape
What a vowel does when it lives inside a word. The ten vowel signs in the order the stories use them, the dot that quiets an m, the two dots that let a word breathe out, and the joined letters, each one met in a word you already know from the books. It ends where the cub’s fourth chapter ends: six words drawn in the earth by a father’s paw.

Every word here is from the stories. Nothing is a list. Walks beside Gāyatrī’s Song.

Coming soon · 8.5 × 11 paperback

Siṃhī Workbook Three: Sanskrit Words at Work — cover

३Sanskrit Words at Work · The Garments and the First vākya
The same forest as vanam, vane, vanāt: a word wears a different ending for different work. Eight garments, met where the cub met them on her morning walk; the small footprints a doing leaves behind; and then the one whole sentence Gāyatrī’s Song was saving, one word to a page, then in your own hand, then in your own mouth.

The last part begins the sentence ladder: the sentence taken apart and put back together, rung by rung, in the books’ own cast. Walks beside Gāyatrī’s Song.

Coming soon · 8.5 × 11 paperback

Siṃhī Workbook Four: Sanskrit Sentences — cover

४Sanskrit Sentences · The Twelve Nights
Twelve nights, one at a time. Each night you read the lines she woke with, write them, build new ones from them with a bank of the books’ own words, and say them back from the English without looking. After every three nights, a return. After the twelfth, the ladder climbs: doing-words, yesterday, the garments at work, and iti, the door that closes what someone said.

By the last page you can read the first sentences of a novel in Sanskrit, write them, and say them back. Walks beside Siṃhī’s Dreams.

Coming soon · 8.5 × 11 paperback

Every sound, word and line in the workbooks is read aloud.

The Sounds

How a page works

Meet the sound: where it lives in the mouth, what it sounds like in English, the words Vajra gave with it. Trace it, stroke by stroke, with the pen’s path drawn out one stroke at a time. Read it among the sounds you already have, out of order. Return to it a few pages on, from memory. Later, build with it, and say it back.

Paced the way the brain keeps things: a little, often, and back again.

The books they walk beside

Beginning

Becoming

Receiving

Carrying

Finding

Awakening

Begin where you are.

Siṃhī Workbook One: The Sanskrit Alphabet

Siṃhī Workbook Two: Sanskrit Sounds and Shape

Siṃhī Workbook Three: Sanskrit Words at Work

Siṃhī Workbook Four: Sanskrit Sentences