Complete Sanskrit: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Sanskrit, with Original Texts

: 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