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The Sanskrit Language: An Introductory Grammar and Reader. Revised Edition
Walter Maurer
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Samskrta-Subodhini: A Sanskrit Primer (Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia)
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Introduction to Sanskrit, Part 1
ASIN: 0700713824 |
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This grammar offers a completely new approach to the study of Sanskrit, aimed at students with no previous specialist knowledge of the categories of grammar. It is a stimulating and infectious approach, designed to cultivate rapid and lasting enthusiasm for Sanskrit.
Important features of the work are the use of connected passages for exercise which are intrinsically more interesting and challenging than the unrelated sentences found in other grammars; the great deal of attention given to the explanation of the Devanagari system; and the extensive appendices and glossaries in a separate volume.
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way too much vocab per chapter!!!.......2007-07-31
This book has great explanations; it's a good grammar with good stories. BUT, there's about 80-100 words to learn per chapter! How could anyone possibly absorb this? There is a Thomas Egenes book out there and another book called Samskrtam Subodhini: a Sanskrit Primer. These two books are your best choices, the former being slow and divided up into two books and the latter being quick paced with a lot of vocab at times but also with a lot of exercises. I went to the library and took a look at this book and was disappointed. It seems most people that study a language are going to want a decent vocabulary but it's not going to happen when there are mountains of it to learn at a time. Save your money for a good Sanskrit Reader like Lanman after you're done with one of the two I've already suggested. You'll be happier and still have a few bucks to spare.
THE BEST BOOK FOR LEARNING SANSKRIT.......2007-07-30
This is by far the best book for learning Sanskrit. Every lesson has an excellent introduction to grammar and the notes always give a curious aspect of Indian culture, plus the texts are very well presented. I've tried dozens of manuals and am every day more grateful with Mr. Maurer. His explanations are always clear and charming. The only thing a solitary student may regret is that this manual has no key to the exersises. But if you work hard (which you always should do if you want to learn Sanskrit) you will see all the answers you need are within the manual, and all the words and grammar tables you need are available in the second volume. Coulson's "Teach yourself Sanskrit" has keys, but the grammar is very dense. Maurer's method comes in 2 parts and is expensive, but is really really worth it. You will enjoy learning this enchanting language very much.
THE Sanskrit Beginner's Book!.......2006-04-01
In my opinion as a Sanskrit teacher there is simply no better text ever written. As other reviewers have noted the content, the high quality of the Devanagari font etc. make this a sine qua non for the beginning student. To Prof. Mauer I say: "Uttamam!"
Superbly writtten........2003-02-03
I love this book for its organization, its exercises, and its explanations. It makes learning Sanskrit easy, and is evidently a labor of love by it author.
The Joy of Sanskrit.......2000-02-19
I have seen a few others and tried using one of them, but this set by Maurer is easily the best I have come across. The script is easy to read and the grammar is carefully presented to make it possible for the beginner to start using and enjoying the language immediately. Additionally, the second volume provides a historical overview of the language and other Indo-European tongues, all the conjugational and declensional paradigms, and a two-way dictionary for easy reference. It's expensive - the author sacrificed his royalties to force the publishers into a hardcover - but well worth the money.
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Sanskrit - English and English - Sanskrit Dictionary: 2 Vols., Etymologicall Arranged With Special References to Cognate Indo-European Languages Greatly Enlarged and Improved With the Collaboration of Leumann
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This work is supplement to the author's earlier work "Sanskrit Grammar". It contains in detail all the quotable roots of the Language, with the tense and conjugation-systems made from them, and with the noun and adjective formation that attach themselves most closely to the verb, and further with the other derivative noun and adjective stems usually classed as primary with great accuracy.(Reprinted)
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not rapid.......2006-03-11
of course this book and his grammar are valuable I think they are a little bit boring.First of all, Sanskrit Grammar and Roots, Verb Forms are written without devanagari scripts.For this reason one may use Introduction to Sanskrit 2 by Thomas Egenes because it gives the roots and the derivatives in devanagari though the roots are numerically fewer than that of Whitney's.
Wow!.......2004-09-27
The previous reviewer is absolutely correct. This slim bound package of dynamite will save you hours of page flipping in Monier-William's beast.
Excellent for advanced students who are confronting several new roots, and very useful for beginners too for practice in memorizing the tenses, moods, and derivatives.
This is undoubtedly a must-have in the Sanskrit scholar's arsenal.
An indespensable reference work.......2000-08-04
Sanskrit must hold the record for the most verbal forms derivable from a single verbal root. Whitney's work not only provides the forms - primary conjugations, secondary derivations and some derivatives - but tags them with the era of Sanskrit in which they occur - Vedas, Updanishads, Epic, Classical etc. This is a must in the library of anyone who reads - or attempts to read - Sanskrit.
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1878. Partial list of Contents: Letters; Sandhi or Euphonic Combination of Letters; Roots, and the Formation of Nominal Stems; Declension of Nouns. General Observations; Pronouns; Verbs. General Observations; Indeclinable Words; Compound Words; Syntax; Exercises in Translation and Parsing.
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As Latin is key to the study of Western classics, so Sanskrit is the language of ancient Indian literature. This guide begins with an introduction to the Sanskrit alphabet, followed by a treatment of the accent — its changes in combination, inflection, and tone. Succeeding chapters discuss declension, conjugation, parts of speech, more.
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Sanskrit Grammar- Whitney.......2007-06-15
I am presently useing this book in conjunction with Lanman's- Sanskrit Reader. In a University setting with a competent professor, this is undoubtledly a superb combination.
Although I am turning the corner on this language (picking up steam, "cooking" with oil...) might I suggest to other beginning independent students such as myself, try something a little kinder and gentler, then work up to this.
It is customary and common practice for me to jump headlong into these sorts of disciplines. However, since the difficulties of this language are at the begining; perhaps something along the lines of: Edward Perry's- A Sanskrit Primer, might be more in order.
As I do have a measure of: Greek, German, and Morse Code(that counts also); the general grammatical concepts and terms I am for the most part familiar with. Since this is a very detailed, comprehensive Grammar; it does require: patience, persistance, and effort.
As for me, I am accustomed to the underdog posistion- looking for fairness and justice, you ain't gonna find it down here. Furthermore, if I am going to be dominated by anything; it might as well be Sanskrit.
This Grammar is a "Classic", and I shall rise to the occasion. See, I can sound like college kid's and your professors.
And that's my review.
Essential historically but today slightly out-distanced.......2007-06-13
An essential book to understand what has to be done to regenerate diachronic linguistics and the diachronic approach of Sanskrit, Irano-Aryan languages, and then Indo-Aryan and Indo-European languages. Whitney is one of those who set the main concepts by projecting onto Sanskrit his "modern" European concepts. This is clear when he speaks of participles, infinitives, gerundives and gerunds. It never comes to his consciousness that maybe these forms - be they antecedent to or derived from conjugated verbs - are no longer either only or at all in the temporal field but are positioned, in a way or another, totally or partially, in a spatial domain, are spatialized. So he is reduced to speaking of these forms that he mostly sees as declined nominal forms as being quasi-infinitives or infinitives not by the spatial value of these forms but by a pure parallel with the corresponding translations in our languages. In the same way he sees that the genitive is mostly not expressing possession but he does not see it expresses the attribution of something or some quality to someone or some other thing, which implies we have to reconsider the basic value of this genitive. The third example would be that he does not see verbs are by principle dynamic and that all roots are "verbal" (and we should discuss this term because we are before the very distinction between verbs and nouns, in a proto semantic state where nominal and verbal are irrelevant) that is to say dynamic and not static. It is the use of the root in either a nominal or a verbal derivation that makes it a verb or a noun. The book what's more does not give any syntax, I mean the syntax of sentences. He does not see for one example that "BHU" is both "BE" and "BECOME", static and dynamic localizing "state" neither verbal nor nominal in our understanding of these categories in the root itself (and the reference to the traditional translations `be' and `become' is pure intellectual laziness based on the fact that our languages do not have a proto semantic form that is neither nominal nor verbal, before verb and noun emerge). But when the nominative subject of this BE-BECOME understanding when conjugated into a verb is declined in the genitive the BE-BECOME relation from this nominative to the nominative predicative noun is transformed into a HAVE-(GET) relation (note it is purely relational and has nothing to do with a special semantic unit) from this genitive to the nominative predicative noun. If he had dwelt on this case, and there are others of the same type that he quotes at times when examining the uses of the various cases, he would have been able to understand the genitive does not express a possession but the beneficiary of an attribution movement. Yet this book has to be checked, be it only because it is rather clear and explains what has been said since on Sanskrit, as long as linguists did not question the basic concepts. Luckily some linguist have started to question them.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
Maybe if you had a Master's Degree in Linguistics..............2007-01-11
This book is AWFUL. If you are trying to learn Sanskrit grammar as a beginner or just interested in getting some basics, this is NOT the book for you. This book would be great as a reference material if you understood complex grammar terms such as another reviewer mentioned. The books is entirely too dense, the index to look things up is awful. All and all I would NOT recommend this. Please stay away from it unless you are holding your Master's in Linguistics or already have an EXTREMELY THOROUGH knowledge of Sanskrit language and grammar. Very disappointing book indeed.
Whitney Sanskrit Grammar.......2006-02-22
I like the introductory sections and discussion of differences in classical and Vedic Sanskrit. Still it moves quickly into more detail than can be absorbed with casual study. It is a good reference text -- easier to find things than some of the other grammatical texts -- and it answers some basic questions, like the history of the word spacing in modern texts. But still engages in the vocabulary of advanced grammar without defining the terms -- for example, desiderative, aorist, etc.
Classic work in the field.......2004-09-29
Whitney is the prototype for Sanskrit grammars in English. I suspect the author had in mind Allen and Greenough's Latin grammar or H.W. Smythe's Greek grammar when designing the numeric scheme for each point, theme, and paradigm. It is a very useful system of notation for referencing from other works.
I can't honestly see going through this lesson by lesson with most students who are not dedicated to long term research in the field and want to begin reading Sanskrit without learning every arcane morphological exception. This book serves as an indispensible reference work by including Vedic forms as well as accentation in the paradigms, which I would imagine is more authoritative than Coulson's simple rules. The book is long and comprehensive, and like Smythe and Greenough, has gained the respect of being "the" authoritative source. It is a wonderful book for learning troublesome concepts correctly and more fully than several of the shorter grammars treat them.
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This Sanskrit Grammar is planned on different model from those existing already. The objects in preparing this grammar were to make a presentation of the language as they show themselves in use in the literature and as they are laid down by the native grammarians. The gramamr also includes the forms and constructions of the older languages as found in the Vedas and Brahmanas. The author has also made use of other Vedic texts and various works of Brahmana period, both in printed and in manuscript form.
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Reprint of a classic reference work on Sanskrit. based on 1927 edition, but totally reset, clear printing
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1845. Conducted through the press by H.H. Wilson. Bopp, German philologist, conducted research in many languages and earned a great reputation as a scholar by demonstrating the relationship of the Indo-European languages in his Comparative Grammar.
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Functional and fun, each course offers full pronunciation guides, grammar summaries, dialogues, cultural notes, vocabulary charts, and irregular verb tables. Ideal for complete language study from comprehension, to speaking and writing skills, to understanding the culture.
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Excellent book, but not for complete beginners.......2007-10-07
I found Coulson's "Sanskrit" a wonderful book, dense with information. However the title "Teach Yourself" is a misnomer: I cannot imagine someone with no prior knowledge of ancient languages making profitable use of it. Like the reviewer below, I am fortunate enough to know Latin and Greek already, and I'm also familiar with Hindi and the Devanagari script. (I'm also fluent in French, another language with which Coulson also assumes some familiarity). If I didn't already have this background, I don't think I'd be able to make head or tail of this book. Unfortunately, as many other reviewers have said, Sanskrit just is a really hard language (far harder than Latin, Greek or Hindi in my opinion), and there's no getting around that basic fact. Coulson aims to get you up to a very high level by the end of the book, and he has to go at a lightning pace to do that: however I would suggest a more gently-paced introduction to readers who don't already have a substantial linguistic background.
Super Technical.......2007-09-01
I am sure this book serves a very good purpose (Academic research etc).
However it is not for a layman trying to learn Sanskrit.
An Appreciation Without Apprehension by Bharat S. Shah is such a nice book for an absolute beginner.
Among things that I don't like in this book are that the Author does not use devanagri scrip uniformly throughout the book. It would be nice to read it in the script in which the language is actually written.
However, Sanskrit resources are not that easily available and I have certainly learned some valuable things from this book. So this is a good book to have in your library. Just know that this is a very technical book (and when I say technical, I really mean it). Unless you are in langage research, you will find this book hard to decipher.
But there are sections that are helpful. Its a good addition to collect. Just not a book for laymen trying to learn Sanskrit.
There are other grammar books which are targeted towards beginners and might be more relevant.
A must for every sanskrit newbie.......2006-10-12
What makes this sanskrit primer special is the easy with which you can read it. In contrast to the chippy style of other more "classical" books, you will realy enjoy reading this one - it gives you a lot of interesting background information about the language, which as I found, makes learning the stuff much easier.
Unlike other books, allmost all of the texts in the book are taken from original sanskrit sources. So you are directly confronted with what you most probably intend to do after being able to read in sanskrit - enjoing the sanskrit liteature in its original form.
Anyway, even I'm a newbie in sanskrit, I highly recomend the book - it is one of the best resources on sanskrit I found so far.
I could not exclude, that you are going to need other sanksrit resources also, however you should not miss this one - mainly becuase it is so motivating reading it, and also because of the background information you get, which you otherwise would not find in the more systematicly organized sanskrit primers.
And as I said, you will enjoy it - it is more like a gripping thriller than a boring textbook.
Comprehensive but very hard.......2006-08-05
Struggling with this book, it is anything but a book for beginners. Unless you are a god of linguistics or already know Sanskrit, probably better to start somewhere (anywhere) else. I will grant Coulson that - it is comprehensive...
The best book for beginners.......2006-07-14
This is by far the best introductory book for those interested in studying Sanskrit seriously on their own. The book is not easy, but then, neither is Sanskrit. Coulson presents Sanskrit grammar clearly, and his exercises are extremely useful. Completing this book will make it possible for a student to read relatively simple Sanskrit texts with a dictionary on his or her own.
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Rich royalty-free collection reprinted from rare German reference work includes detailed renderings of borage, (sweet) baneberry, cabbage, oak-apple, valerian, thistle, tansy, sesame, lion’s tooth, savory, many other plant varieties. Ideal for adding a medieval touch to catalogs, flyers, and other projects calling for plant-related graphics.
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Very Nice Woodcuts, But Limited in Some Ways.......2000-05-13
As usual, Carol B. Grafton has edited another excellent book; this one has a little under 300 black-and-white copies of medieval woodcuts (?), which sounds like a lot but doesn't satisfy an obsessive medievalomaniac. The book is also relatively colorless. But for most people, this book will probably be satisfactory in the area of variety.
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