Introduction to Sanskrit, Part Two [Paperback]

Thomas Egenes (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Point Loma Pubns (December 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 188959802X
• ISBN-13: 978-1889598024
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,158,055 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars correction, September 20, 2000

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This review is from: Introduction to Sanskrit, Part Two (Paperback)

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1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars elemental, July 7, 2006

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Costa Enzo Fernando "sinaruspica" (buenos aires argentina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Introduction to Sanskrit, Part Two (Paperback)

The objective of this booklet with cassette is to provide the student with an elementary guide for the acceptable pronunciation of Sanskrit terms transliterated in Latin characters. As the author says: "...They should enable speakers of English to pronounce Sanskrit words so that they are recognizable to Indian Scholars..."
Consecuently, the reader will not find any phonetic introduction to the "devanagari" script. The aim looked for is merely that the student can pronounce Sanskrit words with some accuracy.. It is not tried to obtain a perfect intonation by one of the very few 50.000 hindus who still today affirm in official census to have Sanskrit as their first language. In fact, he who reads the selected words as an example is not a native professor, as you can notice when he commits some isolated slip in the emission of the "aspirated" consonants (bh, ph, gh, dh, etc.)
Briefly, this booklet with cassette will allow to pronounce Sanskrit words (if duly transliterates in Latin characters only), without feeling inhibited or ridiculous.