Update
I feel as though I am amiss if I don't give at least a brief report of what is going on here. It seems that I have gone through another long period of silence on the blog, which is not particularly good if you are "building" an audience. Or whatever it is that motivates us to engage in action of any kind. I have started teaching my two daily classes. It has changed my mood completely to be directly engaging with students and again trying to share my love of Sanskrit with them. The last couple of weeks I have been working on the manual again, mostly formatting, so that the students have a hard copy to scribble on. I am going to pick up the hard copy later this morning. Jiva Tirtha Sanskrit 7.5. After ten classes one student asked, Am I supposed to be memorizing this? Yes, my friends, I am afraid soPretty ambitious, I know. Foolish also. Anyway, I told my students that Panini was the first linguist and his analysis went quite far and influenced Indian thinkI have packed ...