ingen Na raed pep Sm reed sae of Sn Bion Pratt why Boson fr tv Momo Comeane ‘iy Lows & Broo, Pantet, Lt ans Saar, Coxon Tow, Loni, V1 eeeiiee eae nee 2535 Seccieeerne A SANSKRIT GRAMMAR FOR STUDENTS BY ARTHUR AY YACDONELL in DOL of Corp Ch Fellow of the fl Aradeny THIRD EDETION OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON: HUMPHREY stILFORD 1027« = 3 at | ee iu PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION 1s preparing a new ofition of thls grammar T have found misprints requiring eorretion to bo few anil insignificant. ‘The alterations that seemed necessary are neney all concerned with facilitating the use of the book for students, One of these isthe indication of the relevant nuraber of chapter and paragraph on the Snside top corner of each page. Since the srammar i intended to supply a complete account of Classical Sanskrit, many patageaphs may be omitted till « later stage of study, I therfore here appeod a list of thase which are ‘essoutial for absolute begianers and thus ennstitte a virtual primer of Cassea! Sanskrit. Ts sy, 8g tg Ts 16-28, 97, 30-34, 36 A.B, 37, 38 40, $244 45, 1B, 52°55, 65, OF. Ts 70, TH, 13: TH THe BS: 84, 99, 1, 97: 400, tor Dip. 63), t03, 1, 2, 209-84, 120. A: nar-1a8, 134,132 (ooly Pres Par, pp. 92,98), 136, 136, 158, 1 (omly vind, Par.) 141 a (only Par.)435# (only Par.) 147 (only Par), x48 (only aim), x51 (only Par), 56 (aly Pros) 156, 160, 1,2, 162, 063, 167, 168, 169, 272, 175, When the student bas gone through these paragraphs he will be quite prepared to brgin reading. Any new gran matical forms be now moets with he will be able to fad ‘explained Jn the paragraphs that hare heen passed over. Ta ‘his way be will understand, with the ald of a vocabulary, every word in the frst eanto of the Stry of Nala withia the course of a month, and know all the grammar necessary for wailing easy Sanskrit texte,vi PREFACE 70 THIRD EDITION Since the appearance of the secon eition of this work (1011) my Velie Gruner for Students was publitbed (1916). "Though this new lonk reemed at fits sight to make Appendix TM superdiuous in the proseat work (pp. 236-44), T decided to retain it as presenting Ved granar in an abridged. fora, ‘and venleriog it easier for abvolute boginuers to master, AM 420 Ragmwnt. Ron, Oxroee, November, 1926. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION ‘Twr original form of the pretent work was my abridgement (1886) of Max Muller's Sanskrit Grammar (2nd ed, 1870) ‘That abridgment was the ontoome of what T had found by exprience, bth as a Tearner and a teacher, to be anesential in fn elementary gramat, It wae also partly due to my eon= vietion thet the existing Sanslrt grammars, being too much omiusted by the epstem of Panini, rendered Sanskrit: ane ecescarily hard to learn, Tho introductory sletch of the istry of Sasslt grammer profxod to the prevent volume will, T think, elisiently chow that the mative Tndian system is incompatible with the practical methois of teaching and learning inthe West Tu the frst edition of thie grammar, publiched in 1901, the catler book war transformed into an entivly new work ‘Though, on the whole, considerably enlarged it showed many ominsious. For T made it my guiding principle to leave out sll aotter thet is Sound exclusively in Verio Titertare or in ‘the Hindu grammarians, the aim T bed in view being to describe only such grammatical forms as are to be met with jn the actus literature of post-Vadie Sanslait. The student of Sunslrit grammar would thor not bo burdened with matter ‘whieh could never be of any practical use to him. Hence Trefained from employing, even in a paradigm, any word not to be found in the litenture; thoagh for the eae of completeness T hare often gave iuflected forms reprecentad only by other words of the same type. ‘The parpare of the ool, then, was uot to supply a mase of forme and rules rainly wsefal for anewering exsiination questions more or