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Author:   Michael Coulson
Publisher:   John Murray Press
Imprint:   Teach Yourself
Dimensions:   Width: 12.80cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781444106107

ISBN 10:   1444106104
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   25 June 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

: 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

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Michael Coulson taught Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh. He died before the book was published and Richard Gombrich, formerly Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University, saw the book through the press. James Benson, University Lecturer at Oxford University, carried out a light revision for this and the second and third editions of the book.

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