The Sanskrit Language: A Grammar and Reader - download pdf or read online

By Walter Harding Maurer

ISBN-10: 0700703527

ISBN-13: 9780700703524

This grammar bargains a very new method of the learn of Sanskrit, aimed toward scholars with out past expert wisdom of the kinds of grammar. it's a stimulating and infectious method, designed to domesticate speedy and lasting enthusiasm for Sanskrit.

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The same procedure is^followed for the vow els. 12 These names in may refer either to the written sym bols or to the sounds indicated by them. ; m or Til a, a, J r . D iphthongs Visarga A n u svara ( (_) u, (^)u, ^ ) ( ) r T ( ) “) ) au h 1 ^L iterally a 'snarl' or 'grow l' and probably so -c a lle d from the roll or trill w ith w h ic h it is sou nd ed , lik e the snarl o f a d og! It is o f interest to note that the^only script in India in w h ich the letters have n am es, lik e this o n e excep tion in the D evanagari, is the Gurmukhi o f Pafijabi, in w h ich every letter has its o w n distin ctive nam e.

S Exam ples o f the signs in combination: 1. 3ld {tenth) d d d {son) d Hd {burning) CRPT {falling) d d ^ {city) ^ -Hd {subduing) d d d {bending) **KUI {refuge) Lb^ld* {plank) {thick) ddd d {thinking) d d> d d d {grass) d"dd {worship) {sea-monster)

Etc. In Sanskrit adjectives, like nouns, have endings which change according to the noun they describe or qualify. Precisely what this somewhat mystifying assertion means w ill becom e clear as we proceed with our study o f Sanskrit. As w e have seen, the different endings or final syllables o f nouns and adjectives are used to indicate whether a word is the subject or performer or whether it designates the one affected by the action. Grammarians call these sense-relationships by the somewhat strange technical name 'cases'.

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