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A Practical Grammar of the Sanskrit Language: Arranged With Reference to the Classical Languages of Europe, for the Use of English Students. E-book. Formato PDF Monier Williams - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Now that this Grammar has reached a fourth edition it may, perhaps, without presumption, be allowed to rest on its own merits. I have, therefore, dispensed with much of the prefatory matter which introduced the previous editions. Any one who compares the present Grammar with its predecessor will see at once the difference between the two, not indeed in its structure and arrangement, nor even in the numbering of the rules, but in the fuller and more complete explanation of points of detail. It may be well, however, to draw attention to some of the most noteworthy alterations and improvements. A table shewing the interchange of letters in the three sister languages, Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, has been given at pages 18 — 20. The list of suffixes at pages 57 — 7 5 has been consider ably enlarged, and arranged in alphabetical order under each declension. The subject of declension has been elucidated by a clearer method of synopsis. A more complete account of Sanskrit accentuation has been given at the end of the volume.
Practical Grammar of the Sanskrit Language: Arranged With Reference to the Classical Languages of Europe, for the Use of English Students. E-book. Formato PDF Monier Williams - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
In 1846 I published a Grammar of the Sanskrit language, which I entitled 'An elementary Grammar, arranged according to a new Theory.' This work is now out of print, and a new edition is required. The increasing experience which, during the subsequent ten years, I have derived from my duties as Sanskrit Professor at the East-India College, where every student without exception is compelled by statute to acquire this language, has led me to modify some of the views I expressed in my first Grammar respecting the Indian grammatical system. I have consequently felt myself called upon to re-write the book; and although I have seen no reason to depart materially from the arrangement originally adopted, yet I am confident that the present enlarged and more complete work will be found even better adapted than its predecessor to the practical wants of the European student At the best, a grammar is regarded by an European as a necessary evil, only to be tolerated because unavoidable. Especially must it be so in the case of a language confessedly more copious, more elaborate and artificial, than any other language of the world, living or dead. The structure of such a language must of necessity be highly complex. To the native of Hindustan this complexity is a positive recommendation. He views in it an evidence and a pledge of the sacred and unapproachable character of the tongue which he venerates as divine.
Hinduism. E-book. Formato PDF Monier Williams - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
More properly amsid-zana', text and commentary. The term Zand, which meant commentary, was afterwards applied to the language in which the Firsi sacred books were written. This Zand language is only separated by a short interval from that of one set of the cuneiform inscriptions, which again was closely followed by Pahlavi.