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Sanskrit Grammar for Students

by: Arthur A. Macdonell

This fresh typesetting of Prof. Macdonell’s work explains the mechanics of the Sanskrit language’s euphonic combinations (sandhi), declension, conjugation, nominal stem formation and compounds, etc., with insights into the syntactical arrangement of Sanskrit sentence.

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Year Of Publication: 2019
Edition: 4th
Pages : xx, 264
Bibliographic Details : Appendices; Indices
Language : English
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher: D.K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
Size: 19 cm.
Weight: 350

Overview

It is an altogether fresh “reprint” of the eminent Orientalist, Arthur Macdonell’s A Sanskrit Grammar (1927 edition: Oxford). Which, ever since its first appearance, has been widely acclaimed both in India and elsewhere in the world, as an authentic, at once relevant account of classical Sanskrit.

Projecting, with well-chosen examples, a whole mass of grammatical forms to be met with in the post-Vedic Sanskrit literature, the author systematically explains the mechanics of its euphonic combinations (sandhi), declension, conjugation, nominal stem formation and compounds, and a lot else — with complete insights into the syntactical arrangement of Sanskrit sentence. Supported by several information-packaged appendices, the book also carries a brilliant resume of the Sanskrit grammatical tradition going back to the 5th century BC.

Now typeset anew with the latest technological aids, the late Macdonell’s work today remains as much indispensable to the students of Sanskrit as to the scholars, who seek to discover for themselves the splendour of its literary classics.

Contents

Preface to Third Edition
Preface to Second Edition
Introduction : Brief History of Sanskrit Grammer
Table of the Devanagari Letters
1. The Alphabet
List of Compound Consonants
Pronunciation
2. Rules of Sandhi or Euphonic Combination of Letters
External Sandhi
Classification of Consonants
Changes of Quality
Changes of Place
Doubling of Consonants
Initial Aspiration
Internal Sandhi
Final Vowels
Final Consonants
3. Declension
Nouns
Unchangeable Stems.
Stems in Dentals
Stems in Labials
Stems in Palatals
Stems in Cerebrals
Stems in h
Stems in r
Stems in s
Changeable Stems
Nouns with Two Stems
Nouns with Three Stems
Irregular Nouns with Changeable Stems
Stems Ending in Vowels
Irregularities
Degrees of Comparison
Numerals
Pronouns

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