संस्कृत विद्याभ्यास

     तस्य भ्राता शहरं न गच्छति| His brother does not go to city. Here the word तस्य is the genitive form of pronoun स: - his Now the same word in feminine gender is तस्या:      तस्या: भगिनी शहरं न गच्छति |  Her sister does not go to the city. Now if I want to say "my son went to village"? The genitive case of first person singular is मम - my     मम सुत: ग्रामम् अगच्छत् |  Notice that the verb is  अगच्छत् because the sentence is in past tense.  Now let us say "Your father will come tomorrow".    तव पिता श्व: आगमिष्यति | भवत: पिता श्व: आगमिष्यति| तव means your. It is genitive form of युष्मद्. भवत: is more respectful term - it is similar to आप का in Hindi.  श्व: is tomorrow. And ह्य: is yesterday.  परश्व: is day after tomorrow and परह्य: is day before yesterday.  ह्य: अहं गृहे आसाम् |  Yesterday I was at home.  आसाम् is the past tense form of अस्मि  We know yesterday and tomorrow. What do you call today?  अद्य . Today is अद्य . and अधुना means now.       त्वम् इदानीमे

Let us start today's post with a sentence. त्वम् अत्र शीघ्रम् ओदनम् आनय| You bring cooked rice here soon. Now we know that त्वम् means you.  The word अत्र means here. It is an indeclinable - अव्यय- the word which remains same in all numbers, genders and cases etc. If only the complete language was like that :( So if अत्र is here, what is तत्र ? Of course it means there. And कुत्र is ? Yeah, it is where and सर्वत्र means everywhere. देव: कुत्र अस्ति ? अत्र अस्ति| तत्र अस्ति| सर्वत्र अस्ति| Where is God? He is here. He is there. He is everywhere. Now if you want, you can replace the word God with plastic. :) or for that matter corruption. शीघ्रम् means soon or fast. Now can you tell me what is शिघ्राहारमन्दिर ? Yes, it means fast food restaurant. बहवः जना: शिघ्राहारं न क्रीणन्ति|           Many people do not buy fast food. Because old people like me have all the time in the world to slowly cook slow food :)   ओदन means cooked rice. Another word for cooked rice is अन्न  wh