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pravesha broadly covers the following topics:

1. Study and use of devanAgarii script

2. Declensions of masculine, feminine, and neuter genders for vowel ending nouns

3. Declensions of various pronouns

4. Syntax and usages of all seven declensions

5. Numerals, Tenses: Present, past, future and imperative mood, in both parasmaipada and Atmanepada forms

6. Introduction to verb classification, Past participles, gerunds, infinitives, and prefixes

parichaya broadly covers the following topics:

1. Adjectives and their usage, ordinal numbers

2. sandhi (modification of the sound of a word or morpheme when juxtaposed with another or coalescence of letters)

3. Indeclinables, Potential mood

4. anvaya - How to rearrangeand analyze a shloka to understand the verse meaning

5. Passive construction and bhAve (impersonal) usage, Passive Participles and infinitives

shikShA broadly covers the following topics:

1. Present Participles (shatranta) their use and syntax in all Cases

2. sandhi (advanced study continued)

3. Present Participles of Atmanepada

4. Present Passive Participles (shAnach) their use and syntax in all cases (declensions)

5. Use of absolutives (sati saptamii)

6. Detailed rules of anvaya or process of rearranging a shloka for figuring out verse meanings

7. Excerpts from the Bhagavad GeetA and other famous Samskritam literature

kovida broadly covers the following topics:

1. Compounds (samAsa, the 5 groups, and sub classes along with their derivation and usage)

2. Secondary Nominal bases ( taddhitaanta or secondary affixes)

3. Passages from important Samskritam literary authors using simple Samskritam

4. Biographies of important figures in Samskritam literature

5. Figures of speech (alankAras)

6. Poetic Meters or Chandas

7. Brief introduction to Samskritam composition and letter writing