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Teach Yourself Complete Sanskrit Book

Michael Coulson

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Sanskrit
Teach Yourself
01 September 2010
Do you want to be able to read Sanskrit with confidence? Find all the essential tools in this best-selling course from Teach Yourself the No. 1 brand in language learning. Complete Sanskrit contains much original material on Sanskrit syntax and usage, and the carefully graded units explain Sanskrit grammar and style with exceptional clarity. The text includes an introduction to the nagari script, an explanation of how to use Sanskrit commentaries, and a full key to all the exercises.
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Imprint:   Teach Yourself
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 30mm
Weight:   340g
ISBN:   9781444106107
ISBN 10:   1444106104
Series:   Teach Yourself Complete
Pages:   432
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Audience:   General/trade ,  Adult education ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
: 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

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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