An answer teaches nothing.
A question teaches everything.
॥ न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते ॥
ai.geervanee.inSanskrit AI Tutor

the Geervanee Sanskrit AI tools suite · AI शिक्षकः is home

A split you're handed teaches nothing.

Ask any chat tool for a śloka's word-split and it obliges instantly — no reason to withhold it, no idea what you're studying. ai.geervanee.in withholds the answer on purpose and walks you to it, one verified hint at a time. AI should sharpen the mind, not spare it the work — why we built it this way.

shikshaka · pada-ccheda session live
गजाननम् the compound to split
▸ you attempt-1 cache: miss
गजा + ननम्
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Not there yet — but split हिमालयः first. Where do the two words join, and which two vowels merged into that long आ? Then bring what you noticed back to गजाननम्.
every fact verified · Pāṇinian derivation engine

Tools साधनानि

Four tools, one Geervanee login

AI शिक्षकः, the tutor, is where you start — a patient teacher who walks you to every answer instead of handing it over. Beside it, संशोधकः helps you actually speak Sanskrit. Two more are on the way.

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शिक्षकः AI शिक्षकः — the tutor

Guided, never-answering practice across sandhi, vibhakti / vachana, śabda-rūpa, dhātu-rūpa, and the five kinds of complex-word formation — every fact checked against a real Pāṇinian derivation engine before it reaches you.

/samsodhaka live · beta

संशोधकः Samsodhaka — the sentence coach

Practice framing and speaking your own Sanskrit sentences. It never writes the sentence for you — it nudges, one hint at a time, and leans on शिक्षकः for every grammatical call so the correction is always sound.

/vachaka live · beta

वाचकः Vachaka — the reciter

Reads a śloka or passage aloud as a metrically-correct chant, built on the Vāgdhenu open chant system. Most of the library batch-rendered once, then served as static audio.

/lekhaka live · beta

लेखकः Lekhaka — the scribe

Record or upload a Sanskrit recitation and get a clean Devanāgarī transcript — line breaks kept, daṇḍas at verse ends. Document export (PDF / Word / Kindle) is next.

Method रीतिः

Guided questioning, never a direct answer

The tutor never states a śloka's split or translation as its first response. It runs the same Socratic loop for every grammar concept — with one deliberate exception for dictionary lookups.

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Instant answer

गजाननम् = गज + आननम्. Done in one turn. Nothing about the a + ā → ā rule sticks, and the next compound is just as opaque as this one was.

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Derived answer

A simpler parallel word, a question about where it joins, then your own re-application to the original. You leave able to split the next one unaided.

Present the śloka; you attempt a split

The exchange starts from your work, not the tutor's.

If correct — confirm, and say why

The rule that made it correct is named, so the win reinforces something reusable instead of just moving on.

If incorrect — offer a structurally similar word

Same underlying sandhi rule, simpler or more familiar context. You split that one first.

Re-apply to the original

Once the simpler example lands, you carry what you noticed back to the śloka that stumped you.

Last resort — name the specific rule or boundary

Only after repeated rounds, and only ever the rule to look at — never the finished answer, unless every rung above has failed.

Pattern-transfer by analogy

Form and derivation questions can't always use "here's a similar word to split". Asked for the चतुर्थी विभक्ति of गुरु, the tutor doesn't answer गुरवे. It shows that गुरु and शम्भु share one उ-stem paradigm, that शम्भु becomes शम्भवे, and asks what the same ending does to गुरु — so you derive गुरवे yourself.

hint ladder · गुरवे — चतुर्थी विभक्ति of गुरु attempt 1

Every fact — the paradigm match, the sound change — comes from the correctness layer, not the model's guess.

Scope व्याप्तिः

The full grammar a learner works through — not sandhi alone

Every concept below follows the same never-answering approach. Only the last one, a dictionary lookup, is allowed to give the meaning outright.

सन्धि · पदच्छेद
sandhi / word-splitting

Where two sounds meet, what they become, and how to run it backwards.

विभक्ति · वचन
case & number

Which case ending is doing the work in a form, singular through plural.

शब्दरूप · धातुरूप
declension & conjugation

Noun and verb paradigms, reasoned about by class rather than memorised flat.

प्रकृति-प्रत्यय विभाग
stem + suffix derivation

Splitting a word into base and affix, and what each part contributes to the meaning.

कोश अन्वेषण
dictionary lookup · the exception

An unfamiliar word's meaning is given directly — then the tutor may invite you to name its grammatical category or attempt its derivation.

Correctness शुद्धिः

The model phrases the conversation. It doesn't decide what's true.

A generic LLM can state a wrong split with total confidence and no way for a learner to know. Every fact in a hint — the "correct" split, the example words — is drawn from a curated grammar reference first.

Grammar reference ashtadhyayi.in open data · GitHub Correctness layer verified splits, forms, paradigms, derivations source of truth Voice model phrasing & pacing only Student sees one hint facts, then phrasing

Pricing मूल्यम्

Bring your own key, and you're set.

A very nominal platform fee keeps the service running. Add your own free Google API key and that's it — no payment for tokens, no daily bill. Just open AI शिक्षकः and learn, every day.

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Yearly platform fee — that's the whole cost

Very nominal, once a year. It covers the servers, the Pāṇinian grammar engine and upkeep, so the tutor stays available to every learner.

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Add your API key — and you're good to go

Create a free key at Google AI Studio (we show you exactly how), paste it into your profile once, and your practice runs on Google's free tier. No token payments, ever. Encrypted here, one-click to remove.

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Rather not manage a key? Metered plan

Practice runs on Geervanee's own AI, metered and capped so a normal day of learning stays affordable.

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Try it before you decide

New here? You get a handful of free turns on us to feel how the tutor works — no key, no fee, nothing to set up.

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Your key never leaves ai.geervanee.in. It's encrypted at rest, used only to run your own practice, and you can remove it in one click at any time.

One tutor एकः शिक्षकः

Every Geervanee platform, one AI शिक्षकः

The same tutor, the same verified grammar, wherever you learn with Geervanee — geervanee.in, geervanee.com, the Samsad app, the Geervanee mobile app, and Kshanasah. One Geervanee ID, one place the answers are checked.

AI शिक्षकः is a focused practice tutor and a small Sanskrit AI-tools suite — not a general-purpose chatbot or translator. It does one thing: guide you to the answer.

Roadmap आगामि

What deepens the gap over time

The MVP is the never-answering pedagogy, the verified correctness layer, and a plain data stance. These build on it.

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Content-linked practice

A session picks up the exact śloka from the video or course you're already studying.

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Persistent skill tracking

Which sandhi rules you've actually mastered, carried across sessions into Geervanee's performance tracking.

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Purpose-built interaction

Devanagari + IAST rendering, audio pronunciation, tap-to-mark word boundaries — not a plain text box.

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Institutional insight

An aggregated, non-individual view of which rules a class collectively struggles with.

Success लक्ष्यम्

What the platform is measured against

Unaided completion

Share of hint-ladder sessions where the student reaches a correct split without ever being shown the answer.

Cache-hit rate

Most repeat queries served with zero API call.

Real cost / student / day

Tracked average held at or under the affordability target.

Tutor retention

Day-over-day return to the tutor feature specifically, separate from overall app retention.