A Sanskrit Grammar for Students

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