Sanskrit Shiksha - Online Sanskrit Classes by Ms. Ishita Parikh

About Ishita Parikh

Namo Namah: नमोनमः

One named teacher. Every class taught by her, in person on Zoho Meeting, never an assistant, never a recording.

MA (Acharya) in Sanskrit · trained schoolteacher · 500+ students since 2018, in classrooms and online.

Meet Your Teacher:
Ms. Ishita Parikh

Ms. Ishita Parikh teaches Hindi, Sanskrit and Vedic Maths, with over 8 years of teaching experience and 500+ students taught, five years in Mumbai school classrooms and online ever since, with online learners in India, Malaysia and the USA.

Her Hindi teaching runs well beyond her own classes: a year teaching Hindi for an online school, Hindi for children of Indian families in Singapore, and current work on Vedantu's Phoenix programme teaching letter sounds and pronunciation in English and Hindi, much of it to learners with no Indian background. She has taught Hindi for CBSE, ICSE, Cambridge IGCSE and the IB.

She is a trained teacher as well as a subject specialist. Alongside her Master's degree in Sanskrit, she holds two one-year teaching diplomas, one passed with Distinction, and taught in Mumbai schools before moving online.

She has taught Hindi for CBSE, ICSE, Cambridge IGCSE and the IB, including IB Diploma Hindi A, Hindi B and ab initio at both Standard and Higher Level. Because Hindi grammar descends from Sanskrit, her Sanskrit training is what lets her explain the rules rather than ask students to memorise them.

Growing up fascinated by Indian culture, ancient history, and Sanskrit literature, she dedicated herself to making this classical language accessible to modern learners worldwide, through engaging, structured, and student-friendly online classes.

She also works as a Sanskrit translator on a machine-learning research project, turning classical manuscripts into precise English, work where an approximate reading is not good enough. It keeps her Sanskrit sharp well beyond the classroom.

Qualifications & Credentials

📖 Master of Arts (Acharya) in Sanskrit, 2023, Central Sanskrit University (CSU), under the Ministry of Education, Govt. Of India. Two-year postgraduate degree, July 2021 – November 2023, specialising in one śāstra with four additional subjects

🎓 Diploma in Sanskrit Language (three years), University of Mumbai, 2019–2021. Included Basic and Intermediate Spoken Sanskrit

📚 Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, University of Mumbai, 2007

🏛️ Spoken Sanskrit & Advanced Sanskrit, “Elite” grade, 72%, NPTEL / SWAYAM, IIT Kharagpur (Ministry of Education, Govt. Of India). A 12-week proctored course in which only 77 candidates were certified nationwide. Roll No. NPTEL21HS03S14020668: verify this certificate

👩‍🏫 Diploma in Pre-Primary Teachers' Training, Grade A+, Distinction (76.5%), Vidhyanidhi Education Society, Mumbai, 2019. One year, English medium. 459 of 600 marks, covering child psychology, methods of teaching children, child health, and principles of child education. Govt. Reg. No. MAH/1291 G.B.B.S.D. F-27331

🧒 Diploma in Early Childhood Care and Education, Grade A, First Class (73.83%), Vidhyanidhi Education Society, Mumbai, 2019. One year, English medium. 443 of 600 marks, including an assessed school practicum

🔢 International Vedic Maths Teachers' Training Programme, Grade A, Indian Institute of Vedic Maths & Abacus (Skill India / NSDC approved training partner), 2025. Six months, covering all 16 sutras. Certificate No. SDP1701000004429

🕉️ Bhagavad Gītā Course, ISKCON Kurukshetra, 2024

🗣️ Saṁskṛta Sambhāṣaṇam Shibir, 2021, grammar applied to literature, reading nyāya-śāstra passages, and speaking Sanskrit in discussion. Also Sanskrit Language Programme, Sanskrit Shiksha Bharti, 2022

📜 Sanskrit Translator (NLP research), Trade Vectors LLP, since 2022. Translating classical Sanskrit manuscripts into structured English for a machine-learning project, including Pañcāṅga date calculations and classical writing on weather

Teaching Experience

Ms. Parikh has taught in Mumbai schools since 2018, five years in classrooms, at Vibgyor and Swami Vivekanand and part-time at others including Shikha Academy. The roles below are the main ones rather than an exhaustive list. She carried on teaching in schools after moving online, fitting the first online batches into weekends and free periods, which is why the dates overlap.

Founder and Teacher: Sanskrit Shiksha

April 2022 – present · online

Teaches school students, university students and adult learners across time zones. Wrote all five courses herself, Sanskrit Foundations (36 hours), Sanskrit Grammar and Shlokas (42 hours), Classical Sanskrit Reading, Conversational Sanskrit, and Introduction to Vedic Maths (24 hours), each with its own lesson plans, exercises and assessments.

Pronunciation Teacher, Phoenix Programme: Vedantu

June 2026 – present · online

Teaches letter sounds and pronunciation, in both English and Hindi, much of the Hindi work with learners who have no Indian background, and who need to hear the sounds English simply does not have before they can produce them.

Hindi Teacher, NRI families in Singapore

May 2026 – present · online

Teaches Hindi to children of Indian families living in Singapore, the children who hear Hindi at home every day and have never been taught to read it. Exactly the situation the Hindi course for children was built around.

Hindi Teacher: Real School

2022 – 2023 · one year, online

A full year teaching Hindi remotely for an online school, live lessons delivered to their students, to their timetable and their curriculum.

Primary School Teacher: Swami Vivekanand Group of Schools

January 2019 – March 2020 · Kandivali West, Mumbai

Taught primary classes, planned lessons with senior teachers, and gave extra one-to-one help to children falling behind.

Assistant Teacher, Kindergarten: Vibgyor Group of Schools

January 2018 – August 2019 · Borivali, Mumbai

Ran daily lessons and activities for young children, marked work and gave feedback, and planned age-appropriate activities with the teaching team.

Teaching Internship: Divineland Pre-Primary School

October 2018 · Mumbai

The assessed practical training for her Early Childhood Care and Education diploma, curriculum planning, classroom observation and reports, and teaching with teaching aids.

Languages

Sanskrit	Teaches at Master's (Acharya) level; NPTEL Elite in spoken Sanskrit
Hindi	First language
English	Fluent (C2): the language she teaches international students in
Gujarati	First language

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History of Sanskrit

The Sanskrit language was termed as Deva-Vani ('Deva' Gods - 'Vani' language) as it was believed to have been generated by Brahma (The Creator) who passed it to the Gurus and Rishis (Sages) living in celestial abodes, who then communicated the same to their earthly disciples from where it spread on earth. The origin of the language in written form is traced back to the 2nd millennium BCE when the Rig Veda, a collection of sacred hymns, is assumed to have been written after being continued for centuries through oral tradition and preservation of verbal knowledge in the Guru-Disciple relationship.

Sanskrit in terms of its literary association is classified into two different periods, the Vedic and Classical. Vedic Sanskrit is found in the Vedas sacred texts, especially the Rig Veda, the Puranas, and the Upanishads, where the most original form of the language was used.

Vedic Sanskrit

This early Sanskrit is rich in vocabulary, phonology, grammar, and syntax, which remains undiluted in its purity to this day. It consists of 52 letters in total, 16 vowels and 36 consonants.

The language is believed to have been generated by observing the natural progression of sounds created in the human mouth, thus considering sound as an important element of language formation. This is one of the prime reasons why Sanskrit has been rich in poetry and its expressive quality of bringing out the best meaning through perfect sounds that are soothing to the human ear.

What a class actually looks like

Not stock photography. These are from real sessions, her own slides, her own whiteboard, and the workbooks that go out to students.

A Spoken Sanskrit course slide from a live session, Session 2, Basic Conversations

Course slides written for each session, not a generic deck.

Devanagari vowels written by hand on the class whiteboard during a live lesson

The whiteboard mid-class: vowels written out as they are taught.

Gayatri Mantra slide showing Devanagari, transliteration and meaning

Every verse given in Devanagari, transliteration and meaning.

A lesson on screen beside the printed student workbook

The lesson on screen, the workbook open beside it.

A printed Sanskrit workbook page teaching words beginning with the letter अ

Printed workbooks: students write, not just watch.

Sanskrit vowels written out in a lesson with the English word Vowels beside the Devanagari स्वर

English beside Devanagari, every time. Nothing is assumed.

A student's assessment corrected in red during a live class

Work corrected in red, live in the class, not marked and handed back a week later.

Classical Sanskrit

Classical Sanskrit has its origin in the end of the Vedic period when the Upanishads were the last sacred texts to be written down, after which Panini, a descendant of Pani and a grammar and linguistic researcher, introduced the refined version of the language. Panini's timeline is assumed to be around the 4th century BCE, when he introduced his work 'Ashtadhyayi', which means eight chapters, forming the only available foundational and analytical text of Sanskrit grammar. It is considered to be the only source of Sanskrit grammar and vocabulary today, because everything that existed before had never been recorded except via their mention in Panini's Ashtadhyayi.

The Ashtadhyayi contains 3959 systematised rules that are undiluted in brevity, full of wonderful analysis, explanation, and preferential usage of the language and word formation.

The language is so vast that it has more than

- 250 words to describe rainfall
- 67 words to describe water
- 65 words to describe earth

Panini was responsible for the standardisation of the language, which to this day remains in use in multiple forms.

Some similarities can be found between
Sanskrit and other classical Languages.

Sanskrit

German

Greek

Latin

English

Matri

Mutter

Mateera

Mater

Mother

Sunus

Sohn

Yas

Natus

Son

Svasri

Schwester

altheffee

sorror

sister

Apas,jalam

wasser

neero

acqua

water

Dvi

zwei

theeo

duo

two

Ashta

acht

okta

Octo

eight

What does Sanskrit Shiksha have to offer?

Hindi, for children aged 5 to 14 in small groups, for adults learning for travel, work or family, and as school tuition for CBSE, ICSE, State Boards, Cambridge IGCSE and the IB.

Sanskrit, from zero exposure to Devanagari right through to reading classical texts: Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced and Spoken Sanskrit.

Vedic Maths, all 16 sutras for fast mental calculation, useful for school and competitive exams alike.

Every session is live on Zoho Meeting in a batch of no more than 8, recorded for revision, and built around the student's own pace. One-to-one is available throughout.

योगश्चित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः।
yogaścittavṛttinirodhaḥ।
Yoga is restraining the mind-stuff (Chitta) from taking various forms (Vrttis).

Source – Swami Vivekananda

उध्दरेदात्मनात्मानम्।
udhdaredātmanātmānam।
Save yourself by yourself.

Source – Swami Vivekananda

सर्वशास्त्रपुराणेषु व्यासस्य वचनं ध्रुवम्।
परोपकारः पुण्याय पापाय परपीडनम्॥

sarvaśāstrapurāṇeṣu vyāsasya vacanaṃ dhruvam।
paropakāraḥ puṇyāya pāpāya parapīḍanam॥

Amidst all the scriptures and Puranas, know this statement of Vyasa to be true, that doing good to others conduces to merit, and doing harm to others leads to sin.

Source – Swami Vivekananda in a letter to RamKrishnananda (19th March 1894)