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.
About the Book
It is an altogether fresh 'reprint' of the eminent Orientalist, Arthur Macdonell's 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 see to discover for themselves the splendour of its literary classics.
Contents:
PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION INTRODUCTION: Brief History of Sanskrit Grammar TABLE OF THE DEVANAGARI LETTERS
CHAPTER I: THE ALPHABET
Relation of Sanskrit to Vedic and to the Indian Vernaculars - Origin of Indian Writing - Arrangement of the letters - The Vowels - The Consonants - The Numerical Figures - Pronunciation
CHAPTER II: EUPHONIC COMBINATION
External Sandhi: Combination of Vowels and of Consonants - Internal Sandhi: Combination of Vowels and of Consonants
CHAPTER III: DECLENSION
Nouns: Consonant stems - unchangeable - changeable: with Two Stems; with Three Stems - Vowel stems - Degree of Comparison - Numerals: Cardinals - Ordinals - Numeral Adverbs - Pronouns: Personal - Demonstrative - Interrogative - Relative - Reflexive - Possessive - Compound - Quantitative - Indefinite - Pronominal Adjectives
CHAPTER IV: CONJUGATION
Introductory - The Present System - First Conjugation - Second Conjugation - The Augment - Reduplication - Terminations - Paradigms - Irregularities - The Perfect - The Aorist: First Aorist - Second Aorist - Benedictive - Future - Conditional - Passive - Participles - Gerund - Infinitive - Derivative Verbs: Causative - Desiderative - Intensive - Denominative
CHAPTER V: INDECLINABLE WORDS
Prepositions - Prepositional Adverbs - Prepositional Substantives - Prepositional Gerunds - Conjunctive and Adverbial Particles - Interjections
CHAPTER VI: NOMINAL STEM FORMATION AND COMPOUNDS
Primary Suffixes - Secondary Suffixes - Gender - Verbal Compounds - Nominal Compounds: Co-ordinatives - Determinatives: Dependent and Descriptive - Possessive
CHAPTER VII: SYNTAX
Introductory - Order of words - The Article - Number - Concord - Pronouns - Use of the Cases - Locative and Genitive Absolute - Principles - Infinitive - Use of the Tenses - Use of the Moods - Conditional
APPENDIX I: LIST OF VERBS APPENDIX II: METRE IN CLASSICAL SANSKRIT APPENDIX III: CHIEF PECULIARITIES OF VEDIC GRAMMAR SANSKRIT INDEX GENERAL INDEX
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