Complete Sanskrit

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.

• : 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