Description

The purpose of this book, is to provide a self-contained primer, workbook and reader for teaching first-year Sanskrit students with no previous linguistic training. The authors have tried throughout the book, to introduce, explain and illustrate the most significant features of the language and through verses, quotations and readings.

To these ends, the grammar has been , in several areas, simplified to prevent the beginner from being more hampered than is absolutely necessary by relatively insignificant paradigm, rules or exceptions.

Upon completion of this course, students should have a real working knowledge of the major outlines of Sanskrit sentences with some facility and read, with the help of dictionary, approximately 5-10 verses of the Valmiki Ramayana or a similar text in an hour.