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.
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* : 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
