Sanskrit Language

Walter Maurer, Gregory P. Fields

• Introductory Remarks to the Student of Sanskrit; The System of Writing; Rattling the Dry Bones of Grammar Lesson One I. The Declension and 1:fK1 II. Gender III. A Note on the Writing of Final -m (-l{) Lesson Two The Sanskrit Verb Lesson Three The Mysterious Gerund Lesson Four I. Nouns in -ii (-3fT) II. The Demonstrative Lesson Five More about the Sanskrit Verb Lesson Six The Past Passive Participle Lesson Seven Postprandial Exercises Lesson Eight I. Nouns in -i II. The Demonstrative Lesson Nine The Middle Voice Lesson Ten I. Masculine and Feminine Nouns in -i and -u II. The Locative Absolute Lesson Eleven Changes of Sound between Words Lesson Twelve The Romance of Compounds Lesson Thirteen The Romance Continued: Analysis of Long Compounds Lesson Fourteen The Relative Pronoun and Related Words . Lesson Fifteen I. The Optative Mood II. Vowel Sandhi Lesson Sixteen Introduction to Consonant Stems The Story of Puriiravas and Urvas[ Lesson Seventeen Changeable Stems with Two Variants I. The Perfect Tense II. The Imperative Mood Lesson Twenty-Two Adjectives in -anc!-ac (English -ward) III. The Story of Sagara and His Sons Lesson Twenty-Three Nouns Stems in -r IV. The Story of Sagara and His Sons Lesson Twenty-Four Combined Devanagarl Writing. Sandhi Again Lesson Twenty-Five Non-thematic Verbs VI. The Story of Sagara and His Sons Lesson Twenty-Six VII. The Story of Sagara and His Sons Lesson Twenty-Seven I. Poetry in Sanskrit and the Sloka Metre II. The Passive System Lesson Twenty-Eight I. Causative Verbs II. Denominative Verbs III. The Anaphoric Pronoun Lesson Twenty-Nine I. Comparison of Adjectives II. Verbal Prefixes III. A Warrior's Highest Duty: A Righteous War IV. Action without the Fruits of Action Lesson Thirty I. The Aorist Tense II. Adverbs Formed by Suffixes III. Monosyllabic Nouns in -[and -ii V. The Man Whose Attitude is Firmly Established Lesson Thirty-One I. Primary Derivation Lesson Thirty-Two IV. Numerical Words V. Methods of Dating Examples of Numerals and Numerical Words