Selected Bibliography with Annotations

SR No.: 006581
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Eastern School
Publisher: Eastern School
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 26
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 2 MB

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Sanskrit Language Study the Teach Yourself Books series. It is a complete Sanskrit course which can (at least theoretically) by followed without a teacher. It includes or utilizes roman transliteration throughout. Unlike many other books, its exercises and examples are mostly taken directly from Sanskrit texts (specifically from the prose dialogue of the major dramas), not made up. Explanations of Sanskrit usage which might normally be given orally are here written out. Nowhere else have we seen information on how to read a Sanskrit commentary (pp. 258ff.).
Sanskrit Sandhi and Exercises is a small booklet of 26 pages, listing the sandhi rules and giving exercises from which to learn them. Sandhi is the change that dissimilar sounds naturally undergo upon meeting, which in Sanskrit are written out. This booklet was written because the sandhi rules are not easy to use from Whitney's grammar, and are normally scattered in primers. It can be used to supplement textbooks such as the Devavānipraveśikā if desired. Tyberg's First Lessons includes an appendix giving the sandhi rules all together, like in this book.
Sanskrit Readers
A Sanskrit Reader, Text and Vocabulary and Notes, by Charles Rockwell Lanman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1884, etc. A Sanskrit Reader, Containing Seventeen Epic and Puranic Texts, with a Glossary, by J. Gonda. Utrecht: N.V. A. Oosthoek's Uitg. Mij., 1935. Bhagavad Gitā, With Samskệt text, free Translation into Enlish, a Word-for-Word Translation, an Introduction to Samskệt Grammar, and a complete Word Index, by Annie Besant and Bhagavan Das. Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1st through 6th eds., 1905, 1926, 1940, 1950, 1962, 1973.
Lanman's Sanskrit Reader has long been and still remains in widespread use. It contains selections from easy works, including the famous Nala story from the Mahābhārata, twenty stories from the Hitopadeśa (cognate with Aesop's fables), six stories from the Kathasaritsāgara, and some selections from the Laws of Manu. It then gives thirty-one hymns from the Ķgveda,