Author: George L Hart
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 208
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120801997
Description
This guide aims to make the reader nearly as fluent in reading Sanskrit as he is in reading his own language.
Here is a book of Sanskrit grammar whose popularity with teachers and students alike has been on increase since its first printing. In it the essentials of Sanskrit grammar are carefully organized in thirty selected lessons. Interest in lessons is added by quotations of vocabularies from original Sanskrit, and the student is encouraged to read and memorize them. The lessons are followed by appendixes which are of no less interest.
The inclusion of English-Sanskrit and Sanskrit-English glossaries is a special feature of the book.
Contents
Preface
A Note of Thanks
Introduction : The Sanskrit Alphabet
CHAPTER 1
Thematic verbs; present active endings
CHAPTER 2
The cases; declensions of deva, phalam
CHAPTER 3
The middle present
CHAPTER 4
Samadhi of final vowels
CHAPTER 5
Samadhi of -as, -as, -s, -r
CHAPTER 6
Samadhi : -r, -n, -t, -n-
CHAPTER 7
Agni, kirti, Sena
CHAPTER 8
The imperfect active
CHAPTER 9
The imperfect middle : use of iti
CHAPTER 10
Declensions of nadi and pad
CHAPTER 11
Declensions of datr, rajan
CHAPTER 12
Declensions of dham, tvam, sa
CHAPTER 13
Ayam and asau; relatives
CHAPTER 14
The Optative active; nouns in -u
CHAPTER 15
The optative middle; nouns in -s
CHAPTER 16
The imperative active; tatpurusa compounds
CHAPTER 17
The imperative middle; devanda compounds
CHAPTER 18
Behuvrihi compounds
CHAPTER 19
Athematic verbs, class 2
CHAPTER 20
Athematic verbs, class 5, 7, 8 and 9
CHAPTER 21
Athematic verbs, class 3; reduplication
CHAPTER 22
Possessives in -in, vant, -mant; present active participles
CHAPTER 23
The present middle participle; the locative and genitive absolutes
CHAPTER 24
The Passive
CHAPTER 25
The causative
CHAPTER 26
Past passive participles; past active participles
CHAPTER 27
The continuative; verbal prefixes
CHAPTER 28
The infinitive; the simple future; the periphrasic future
CHAPTER 29
The perfect; the perfect periphrastic; the perfect participle
CHAPTER 30
The three gerundives
Appendix I
The aorists
The desiderative
The intensive
The denominative
Appendix 2 ; A review sheet
Sanskrit-English glossary
English-Sanskrit glossary