by Charles Wikner
This course offers a good introduction to the sanskrit language, including the devanagari alphabet, some basic grammar, and advice on how to use a sanskrit dictionary. The whole course is about 150 pages long, or over 1MB as a pdf, so I have divided it into separate chapters to avoid excessive download times. If you choose to download each lesson as you work on it, please note that the answers to the exercises are in an appendix, so you will probably want to download that file fairly early on!
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Download the whole manual as a single file |
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Preface and Contents pages |
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Lesson 1 - Sanskrit Pronunciation, Vowels, Dhatu, Verbs |
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Lesson 2 - Mouth Positions, Consonants, Devanagari Alphabet, More on Verbs |
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Lesson 3 - Semi-Vowels, Sibilants, Summary of Consonants, Alphabetical Order, More on Verbs, Nouns |
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Lesson 4 - Devanagari Alphabet, Summary of Verbs, More on Nouns |
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Lesson 5 - Devanagari Alphabet, More on Nouns |
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Lesson 6 - Vowels after Consonants, History of Vowel Embellishment, Sentence Structure, Noun Gender, Summary of Case Information |
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Lesson 7 - Halanta Consonants, Conjunct Consonants, Special Consonants, Verbal Prefixes |
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Lesson 8 - Special Symbols, Savarna, Anusvara, Numerals, More Nouns, Adjectives, Adverbs |
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Lesson 9 - Vowel Accents, Variations in Devanagari Alphabet, Variations in Samyoga, Revision, Types of Words, Use of ‘iti’ |
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Lesson 10 - Introduction to Sandhi, Guna, Vrddhi, Samprasarana, Introduction to Compound Words |
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Lesson 11 - Visarga Sandhi, Consonant Sandhi Grid, Internal Sandhi, Dvandva, Tatpurusa, Avyayibhava, Bahuvrihi |
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Lesson 12 - Monier-Williams Dictionary |
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Lesson 13 - Words beginning with Sa, References and abbreviations, Special Symbols etc |
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Lesson 14 - Dhatu |
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Lesson 15 - Dhatu-Patha, Study of the Scriptures |
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Appendices - Suggestions for Further Study, Answers to Exercises, English Grammatical Terms |
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Glossary and Index |
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