Author: Rodericks S Bucknell
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 254
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120811895
Description
This book is a convenient quick-reference guide to the phonology and grammar of Classic Sanskrit , for use by university students and others.
It presents, in easily read tables, essential reference information such as the rules of sandhi, the declensional and conjugational paradigms, and the principal parts of major verbs. Tables make up about two-thirds of the book. The remainder is text, with guidance on how to use the tables and explanations of the relevant grammatical principles. Romanised transcription is use throughout, and some innovative modes of description and presentation are adopted. Particular features are a table of the principal parts of 432 verbs, and a set of three indexes - to verb stems verb endings and noun endings.
This manual will be found a valuable, 'user-friendly' companion to existing grammars, such as Whitney's. Though primarily intended for beginning and intermediate students, it will be of use to scholars working with Sanskrit at any level.
Contents
List of Tables
Preface
PART ONE : PHONOLOGY
1. The Speech-sounds
2. External Sandhi
3. Internal Sandhi
4. Vocalic Gradation
5. Alphabetic Sequence
PART II : Grammar
A. NOMINALS
1. Nouns
2. Adjectives
3. Numerals
4. Demonstratives
5. Pronouns
B. VERBS
1. Present and Imperfect
2. Perfect
3. Aorist
4. Precative
5. Periphrastic Future
6. Simple future and conditional
7. Passive Voice
8. Secondary conjugation
9. Participles
10. Non-finite verb-forms
11. Verbal roots and the ten verb classes
12. Using the Verb table
13. Using the indexes
Table 1 to 30
Abbreviations
Bibliography