An Introduction to Sanskrit: Applied Grammar & Composition

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For centuries the students had been asked to study Grammar twelve years to be at home with the Sanskrit language. The early European scholars had almost to undergo the same exercise, but what they brought out for their pupils was somewhat different. In the beginning, the terms of the Hindu grammarians were uncouthly fitted in the western grammatical scheme, which were later on gradually given up. After several stages of simplification, the Sanskrit grammar has now been reduced to the actual requirement of the classical texts. Macdonell’s or Stenzler’s revised grammars perhaps represent the points of culmination. But these scholars had in their mind only the western students who had studied Greek and Latin before taking up Sanskrit. Therefore mule hate hatam sarvam may be the first exercise in a western Sanskrit Grammar, but an Indian teacher may be puzzled when asked to explain this sentence to his students in the first lesson.

Therefore, we require a primer of Sanskrit which does not anticipate the knowledge of any other language. The structure of Sanskrit itself is to be revealed to the students.

The noted peculiarity of this book is that it gives exercises on transformation of sentences. Its value will be realised only when the exercises are taken up.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Madhusudan Mishra

The author, Dr. Madhusudan Mishra (born 1964), passed his post-graduation in Sanskrit from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar (1985) securing the first class first position. A brilliant student throughout his career, he had his M.Phil (1987) and Ph.D. (1993) from the University of Poona. He also worked in the Vaidika Samshodhana Mandala, Pune, the premier Vedic Research Institute in India, in the Avesta and Kanva Samhita projects from 1987-1992. A regular contributor to the leading search journals, he continues to write on Puranic Mythology and traditional Archaeology, Indian Linguistics, Vedic literature and folk culture. He has already published three books and is presently engaged in his mega-project: Ganesa: Fictions and Facts.

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Title
An Introduction to Sanskrit: Applied Grammar & Composition
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Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
817110083X, 9788171100835
Length
xiii+384p., Appendix; Index; 23cm.
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