Sanskrit Grammar: Including both the Classical Language, and the Older Dialects, of Veda and Brahmana, 2nd ed / Edition 2

by William Dwight Whitney

Overview

Sanskrit Grammar - Including both the Classical Language, and the Older Dialects, of Veda and Brahmana, 2nd ed

By The late William Dwight Whitney was Professor of Sanskrit at Yale University, Knight of the Prussian Orden Pour le Mérite, Corresponding Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institute of France, etc., and Editor-in-Chief of The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674788107
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1900
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

The late William Dwight Whitney was Professor of Sanskrit at Yale University, Knight of the Prussian Orden Pour le Mérite, Corresponding Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institute of France, etc., and Editor-in-Chief of The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Alphabet

System of Sounds; Pronunciation

Rules of Euphonic Combination

Declension

Nouns and Adjectives

Numerals

Pronouns

Conjugation

The Present-System

The Perfect-System

The Aorist-Systems

The Future-Systems

Verbal Adjectives and Nouns: Participles, Infinitives, Gerunds

Derivative or Secondary Conjugation

Periphrastic and Compound Conjugation

Indeclinables

Derivation of Declinable Stems

Formation of Compound Stems

Appendix

Sanskrit Index

General Index