Complete Sanskrit

Produktbeschreibung

Do you want to be able to read Sanskrit with confidence? Find all the essential tools in this best-selling course from Teach Yourself the No. 1 brand in language learning. Complete Sanskrit contains much original material on Sanskrit syntax and usage, and the carefully graded units explain Sanskrit grammar and style with exceptional clarity. The text includes an introduction to the nagari script, an explanation of how to use Sanskrit commentaries, and a full key to all the exercises.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

* : Preface

* : Introduction

* : Using this book

* : 1 The nagari script - Transliteration - Prosody - List of conjunct
consonants

* : 2 Roots and verb classes - Nominative, accusative and vocative cases -
Substantives and adjectives - Vowel gradation - Sandhi

* : 3 Nouns and pronouns - Word order - Dvandva compounds

* : 4 Past participle - Instrumental case - Past passive - Omission of
pronouns - Adverbs of manner

* : 5 Dative, ablative, genitive, locative cases - Expressions of time -
Pronominal adjectives - 'to be' - 'to have' - Absolutive

* : 6 Feminine gender - Determinative compounds - Prepositions - Action nouns

* : 7 Consonant stems - Causatives - Prefixes - Use of 'gata'

* : 8 Changeable consonant stems - Exocentric compounds - Predicative
accusatives

* : 9 Stems - Past active participle - Polite forms of address - Denominatives

* : 10 Verbal suffix 'in' - Present participle - Imperative - Abstract nouns -
Exclamations - Verbal nouns

* : 11 Periphrastic future - Passive - Locative absolute - Relative pronoun -
Pronominal table - Attributively used adverbs - Suffix 'tah' - Numerals -
Concord - Nominative with 'iti'

* : 12 Athematic presents - Gerundives - Relative adverbs

* : 13 Reduplication - Infinitive - Future

* : 14 Imperfect - Optative - Remote conditions - Comparatives and
superlatives - Constructions with 'iti' - Indirect command - Indirect
question - Word repetition

* : 15 Perfect - Aorist - Injunctive - Precative - Metre - Paoinian grammar -
Literary criticism

* : Appendix 1: Further Sanskrit study

* : Appendix 2: Grammatical paradigms

* : Appendix 3: Classical metres

* : Sanskrit-English exercises: Transcription

* : Sanskrit-English exercises: Key

* : English-Sanskrit exercises: Roman key

* : English-Sanskrit exercises: Nagari key

* : General vocabulary

* : Index 

Autoreninfo

Michael Coulson taught Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh. His classic work was edited by Professor Richard Gombrich and has been revised by James Benson, both of Oxford University.