1st Edition
The Sanskrit Language An Introductory Grammar and Reader Revised Edition
888 Pages
by
Routledge
Now available in paperback, this grammar offers a completely new approach to the study of Sanskrit, aimed at students with no previous specialist knowledge of the categories of grammar. It is a stimulating and infectious approach, designed to cultivate rapid and lasting enthusiasm for Sanskrit.
Important features of the work are the use of connected passages for exercise which are intrinsically more interesting and challenging than the unrelated sentences found in other grammars; the great deal of attention given to the explanation of the Devanagari system; and the extensive appendices and glossaries.
Introductory Remarks to the Student of Sanskrit; The System of Writing; Rattling the Dry Bones of Grammar Lesson One I. The Declension and 1:fK1 II. Gender III. A Note on the Writing of Final -m (-l{) Lesson Two The Sanskrit Verb Lesson Three The Mysterious Gerund Lesson Four I. Nouns in -ii (-3fT) II. The Demonstrative Lesson Five More about the Sanskrit Verb Lesson Six The Past Passive Participle Lesson Seven Postprandial Exercises Lesson Eight I. Nouns in -i II. The Demonstrative Lesson Nine The Middle Voice Lesson Ten I. Masculine and Feminine Nouns in -i and -u II. The Locative Absolute Lesson Eleven Changes of Sound between Words Lesson Twelve The Romance of Compounds Lesson Thirteen The Romance Continued: Analysis of Long Compounds Lesson Fourteen The Relative Pronoun and Related Words . Lesson Fifteen I. The Optative Mood II. Vowel Sandhi Lesson Sixteen Introduction to Consonant Stems The Story of Puriiravas and Urvas[ Lesson Seventeen Changeable Stems with Two Variants I. The Perfect Tense II. The Imperative Mood Lesson Twenty-Two Adjectives in -anc!-ac (English -ward) III. The Story of Sagara and His Sons Lesson Twenty-Three Nouns Stems in -r IV. The Story of Sagara and His Sons Lesson Twenty-Four Combined Devanagarl Writing. Sandhi Again Lesson Twenty-Five Non-thematic Verbs VI. The Story of Sagara and His Sons Lesson Twenty-Six VII. The Story of Sagara and His Sons Lesson Twenty-Seven I. Poetry in Sanskrit and the Sloka Metre II. The Passive System Lesson Twenty-Eight I. Causative Verbs II. Denominative Verbs III. The Anaphoric Pronoun Lesson Twenty-Nine I. Comparison of Adjectives II. Verbal Prefixes III. A Warrior's Highest Duty: A Righteous War IV. Action without the Fruits of Action Lesson Thirty I. The Aorist Tense II. Adverbs Formed by Suffixes III. Monosyllabic Nouns in -[and -ii V. The Man Whose Attitude is Firmly Established Lesson Thirty-One I. Primary Derivation Lesson Thirty-Two IV. Numerical Words V. Methods of Dating Examples of Numerals and Numerical Words
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Walter Maurer, Gregory P. Fields
