This grammar offers a stimulating and infectious approach for students with no previous specialist knowledge, designed to cultivate rapid and lasting enthusiasm for Sanskrit. This revised edition includes a new analytical index.
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The Joy of Sanskrit,
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This review is from: The Sanskrit Language: A Grammar and Reader (Hardcover)
I have seen a few others and tried using one of them, but this set by Maurer is easily the best I have come across. The script is easy to read and the grammar is carefully presented to make it possible for the beginner to start using and enjoying the language immediately. Additionally, the second volume provides a historical overview of the language and other Indo-European tongues, all the conjugational and declensional paradigms, and a two-way dictionary for easy reference. It's expensive - the author sacrificed his royalties to force the publishers into a hardcover - but well worth the money.
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I am halfway through the book and, as the author has promised, he has explained English grammar so well that I am finding my present study of other difficult languages much easier as a result of skimming through the grammar sections. The Sanskrit writing is beautifully printed and the author is doing a splendid job of making Sanskrit seem like a language which the intelligent and diligent learner " can " learn on her own. I still have a long way to go in my study of this language, but this book has made the learning of Sanskrit seem attainable and, I am almost afraid to say it, fun. These two books are well worth the price.
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This review is from: The Sanskrit Language: An Introductory Grammar and Reader. Revised Edition (2 Vol. Set) (Hardcover)
I love this book for its organization, its exercises, and its explanations. It makes learning Sanskrit easy, and is evidently a labor of love by it author.
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In the preliminary remarks it was mentioned that Sanskrit has eight grammatical cases or sense-relationships and these are indicated by the different endings of nouns as well as the adjectives that qualify the nouns. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
negative gerundive, genitive tatpurusa, nominative masculine plural, reduplicative syllable, locative absolute, sandhi changes, past passive participle, nominative masculine singular, secondary suffixes, bahuvrihi compound, tatpurusa compound, word junctures, primary derivation, thematic vowel, regressive assimilation, thematic classes, grammatical abstraction, internal sandhi, locative plural, particular verb form, consonant sign, instrumental singular, external sandhi, secondary derivation, present passive participle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Anaphoric Pronoun, Active Singular Dual Plural, Lesson Twenty-Two, Old English, Lesson Eight, Declension of Stems, King Sagara, Lesson One, Middle Singular Dual Plural, Singular Dual Plural Nom, Secondary Stem, Writing of Final, First Beginnings, Meaning Primary Imparted, Lesson Four, Lesson Thirty-One, Optative Active, Adverbs Formed, Lesson Two, Masculine Neuter Feminine Nom, Singular Plural Nom, Suffixes Stem Primary Stem Primary Stem, The Passive System, First Conjugation, Ganges River New!
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In the preliminary remarks it was mentioned that Sanskrit has eight grammatical cases or sense-relationships and these are indicated by the different endings of nouns as well as the adjectives that qualify the nouns. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
negative gerundive, genitive tatpurusa, nominative masculine plural, reduplicative syllable, locative absolute, sandhi changes, past passive participle, nominative masculine singular, secondary suffixes, bahuvrihi compound, tatpurusa compound, word junctures, primary derivation, thematic vowel, regressive assimilation, thematic classes, grammatical abstraction, internal sandhi, locative plural, particular verb form, consonant sign, instrumental singular, external sandhi, secondary derivation, present passive participle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Anaphoric Pronoun, Active Singular Dual Plural, Lesson Twenty-Two, Old English, Lesson Eight, Declension of Stems, King Sagara, Lesson One, Middle Singular Dual Plural, Singular Dual Plural Nom, Secondary Stem, Writing of Final, First Beginnings, Meaning Primary Imparted, Lesson Four, Lesson Thirty-One, Optative Active, Adverbs Formed, Lesson Two, Masculine Neuter Feminine Nom, Singular Plural Nom, Suffixes Stem Primary Stem Primary Stem, The Passive System, First Conjugation, Ganges River New!
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