A young lioness sits beneath an ancient tree with her father, in the cool of a long evening, and asks him to tell her about her mother. He tells her, instead, the song her mother carried - forty-six sounds that will travel through the cub's body before the night is over. By the time the sky is full, she has the song. By the time the third night ends, she will have read her first complete Sanskrit sentence, drawn into the earth by her father's paw.
Gāyatrī's Song teaches the Sanskrit alphabet and the foundations of grammar through one of the warmest father-daughter stories ever told. Composed in the narrative tradition of the Hitopadeśa and reaching toward the epics, the Yoga Sūtras, and the Vedas, the book teaches Sanskrit through story rather than through drill. Each sound has its place in the body - throat, palate, tongue-curl, teeth, lips - and the cub learns each one by feeling it. Each grammatical garment is given by something her father has actually done or her mother has actually walked through. The dative is born when a hungry young lion is fed. The vocative is born when the cub realizes her father has been reaching for her with a shortened name her whole life. The locative is born by walking into the forest.
Across one long evening and the two nights that follow, the cub receives the full varṇamālā - every vowel, every consonant class, every semivowel and sibilant. She receives the eight cases not as a chart but as a walk through the valley. She receives the past tense by hearing a story about her mother. And on the last night, before he ever says what is coming, her father draws her first Sanskrit sentence into the earth at the base of the ancient tree. She has been given everything she needed to read it.
Illustrated throughout in original ink drawings from the cast of the wider Siṃhī series - Sarpa, Vajra, Gāyatrī, Sāvitrī, Garuḍa, Gaṇeśa, Mūṣikā, Bhīma, Kālī, Karṇa, Kṛṣṇa, and others. Gāyatrī's Song is the literary prequel to Siṃhī The Becoming and the companion volume to Siṃhī's Twelve Dreams: A First Sanskrit Reader. Together, they give the reader everything needed to walk into the language and meet what comes next.
For adult learners coming to Sanskrit through yoga, meditation, study, or curiosity. For parents reading to children. For Sanskrit students looking for the warmth they love in their favorite stories. For anyone who has wanted to meet the language and not known where to begin.
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