Mispronunciation that killed an Asura – Vedic Sanskrit is not Classical Sanskrit
He uttered the words – no mistake in the syllables, but one mistake in the pitch, and the effects reversed! He got the exact opposite of what he hoped for!
Sanskrit Lesson 2 – Dhatu, Magic Roots of Sanskrit
Sanskrit uses extremely simple versatile building blocks called Dhatu words, a set of 2012 root words from which words of entire language are derived.