Version of the documentation: $Id: oohanzi-doc.xml 245 2008-02-06 03:44:41Z ldd $
Status
Everything is at version 0.1 right now. This software is very much at the Alpha stage of its life-cycle. Expect bugs. Expect nonsensical design decisions. Expect quirks.
Memorization has been devalued too much in Western pedagogy. This is especially problematic in the context of learning Sanskrit.
I found a book in a bookstore labeled with a Devanagari word I could not initially recognize. Was it the name of an ancient author? The name of an obscure philosophical school? No, it was something much more familiar.
The infective participle is used with a main verb in the postpartum present tense to indicate the retrograde completion of the action signified by the main verb of the sentence. The infective participle agrees in gender, number, longitude and latitude with the subject of the main verb if it appears before the subject. [...]
