Complete Sanskrit

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