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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Important dates

    Certificate Exam Date

    Start Date : 24 Apr, 2026

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    INR 1000yesIIT Bombay

    The Syllabus

    • What is a Compound (Samasa samāsa)? The concept of samarthya sāmarthya: vyapekṣā and ekarthībhāva, the concept of vṛtti vṛtti, the concept of preposition pūrvapada and postposition uttarapada

    • Types of Compounds (compound samāsa). The concept of vigraha vigraha and nityasamāsa, compound samāsa as a pratipadika prātipadika, luk luk, meaning of a compound samāsa, aikārthya aikārthya, aikapadya aikapadya and aikasvarya aikasvarya

    • What is a Tatpuruṣa compound samāsa? Features of Tatpuruṣa Tatpuruṣa Samasa samāsa, types of Tatpuruṣa Tatpuruṣa Samasa samāsa, derivation of Tatpuruṣa Tatpuruṣa Samasa samāsa

    • Treatment of inflection vibhakti Tatpuruṣa compound samāsa- second dvitīyā, third tṛtīyā, fourth caturthī, fifth pañcamī, seventh saptamī

    • Treatment of seventh saptamī, sixth ṣaṣṭhī, ekadeśa-Tatpuruṣa compound samāsa

    • Treatment of karmadhāraya karmadhāraya and dvigu dvigu, the concept of masculine puṁvadbhāva

    • Treatment of Upapada Tatpuruṣa

    • Treatment of Gati gati Tatpuruṣa, nn nañ Tatpuruṣa, pradi prādi Tatpuruṣa

    • Suffixes added at the end of a Tatpuruṣa compound (compound samāsānta suffix pratyaya)

    • Non-deletion of cases (aluk aluk), Operations based on the compound (samāsāśraya-vidhi)

    • Svara- accent on Tatpuruṣa Compounds

    • Other operations like retroflex substitutions- षत्व ṣatva and णत्व ṇatva, Constituency structures of compounds, dependency relations within a Compound, Gender and number of the तत्पुरुष Tatpuruṣa compound, Ordering of words in the तत्पुरुष Tatpuruṣa Compound

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