A complete course on reading and understanding Sanskrit, designed for absolute beginners, built around authentic religious and historical texts.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
* : 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
