Discovering Bhagavad Gita Through Sanskrit | HUA

The Certificate Program in Bhagavad Gita Through Sanskrit (BGTS) – Beginner Phase is a comprehensive course designed for students aged 9th Grade and above. It is the first phase of a three-part program that comprises the BGTS. The course assumes no prior knowledge of Sanskrit but requires students to know the devanAgari script. The program consists of four quarters, each of 1.5 credit hours, totaling 60 hours of instruction and 120 hours of self-study. 

The BGTS – Beginner Phase is aimed at high school students and adults who are interested in studying the sacred Hindu text Bhagavad Gita through the Sanskrit language. The course is taught in English and is easily accessible to a global audience. The program is delivered by dedicated HUA Faculty members via a user-friendly online platform, featuring a learning model that uses live virtual classrooms. 

In this course, students will be able to relate to words and expressions from the sacred Hindu text Bhagavad Gita Chapter 1 and 2. The program focuses on developing the students' understanding of the Sanskrit language, and it covers a wide range of topics, including the use of pronouns, persons, and numbers, the recognition of common Sanskrit words, prepositions, and phrases, the discovery of the building blocks of the language through simple everyday conversation, and the understanding of the use of the 2nd and 6th case-endings and words ending with a vowel. 

The course also covers the identification and use of verbal roots (dhatu) and their different forms according to the tenses, the use of prefixes, suffixes, and indeclinables, the recognition of additional Sanskrit words, prepositions, and phrases, the understanding of the use of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, and vocative case-endings, and the appropriate use of case endings for prepositions. Additionally, the course covers the practice of different forms of adjectives and substantives, the gender as applied to cardinal and ordinal numbers, the understanding of declensions for consonant-ending nouns, and the research of grammatical aspects of Bhagavad Gita chapter 1 and 2. 

The program's structure is divided into four quarters, and each quarter takes 1 year to complete, with 1.5 credit hours per quarter. The program uses the curriculum and textbooks designed by Samskrita Bharati USA (SBusa.org) and is based upon material contained in the SBusa published books, “GeetA-sopAnam” (Part 1) and “GeetA-praveshaH” (Part 1, Volume 1), augmented with other appropriate course content. 

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