The book is intended especially as a supplement to Sanskrit Grammar of W.D. Whitney and includes all the views comprehensively of a given root in the Sanskrit language. The author has respected the language of every period, and the great St. Petersburg Lexicon of Bohtlingk and Roth have been his greatest source for materials on epic and classical literature. In the older language of Vedas and Brahmanas and Upanisads and Sutras, he has done much more independent work.
The periods in the life of the language which are acknowledged and distinguished by appropriate notation are six: the Veda (V.); the Brahmana (B.); the Upanisads (U.); the Sutras (S.); the epics (E.); and the common Sanskrit (C.). They have all been adequately explained in detail.
The book will be useful to the scholarly community in need of authentic information on Sanskrit language.
This work is intended especially as a Supplement to my Sanskrit Grammar (Leipzig, 1879), giving, with a fulness of detail that was not then practicable, nor admissible as part of the grammar itself, all the quotable roots of the language, with the tense and conjugation-systems made from them, and with the noun and adjective (infinitival and participial) formations that attach themselves most closely to the verb; and further, with the other derivative noun and adjective-stems usually classed as primary: since these also are needed, if one would have a comprehensive view of the value of a given root in the language. And everything given is dated, with such accuracy as the information thus far in hand allows whether found in the language throughout its whole history, or limited to a certain period.
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