مقدمه‌ای عملی بر سانسکریت

This course of fteen lessons is intended to lift the Englishsp eaking student who knows nothing of Sanskrit to the level where he can intelligently apply Monier Williams dictionary and the Dhatu
Pat ha
to the study of the scriptures The rst ve lessons cover the pronunciation of the basic Sanskrit alphab et together with its written form in b oth Devanagar and transliterated Roman
ash cards are included as an aid The notes on pronunciation are largely descriptive based on mouth p osition and e ort with similar English Received Pronunciation sounds o ered where p ossible The next four lessons describ e vowel emb ellishments to the consonants the principles of conjunct consonants and additions to and variations in the Devanagar alphab et Lessons ten and eleven present sandhi in grid form and explain their principles in sound The next three lessons p enetrate MonierWilliams dictionary through its four levels of alphab etical order and suggest strategies for nding dicult words The last lesson shows the extraction of the artha from the Dhatu
Pat ha and the application of this and the dictionary to the study of the scriptures In addition to the primary course the rst eleven lessons include a B section which intro duces the student to the principles of sentence structure in this fully in ected language Six declension paradigms and class conjugation in the present tense are used with a minimal vo cabulary of nineteen words In the B part of lessons ten and eleven the principles of comp ound words are intro duced The course aims at a practical understanding of the basic principles at getting a feel for the language and not a learning of rules by rote To this end each lesson concludes with exercises for the student to put that understanding into practice
answers to the exercises are presented in an app endix