An Introduction to the Grammar of the Sanskrit Language: For the Use of Early StudentsJ. Madden and Company, 1841 - 447 pàgines |
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1st fut 1st pret 2d fut 3d praet accusative added affix amphibrach analogous Anubandha appellatives Atmane Atmane-pada augment becomes bened Brahman Caus causal changed compound cond conjugational tenses consonant dative denote derivatives Desid diphthong dual final vowel forms attributives Freq gender genitive govern Guna imperative implying indeclinable indicatory inflected inflective base inflexions inserted instr Ist fut letter masculine medial metre nasal neuter nouns Nouns ending optionally substitutes pada Pádas Parasmai-pada participles Pass person singular plural praåt praeterite pråt preceded prefixed preposition Pres present tense pronouns radical vowel Ráma reduplication rejected root rules of Sandhi Sandhi Sanskrit second præterite semivowel sense short vowel sibilant signifying syllable takes the Atmane-pada Tatpurusha termination beginning third person third præterite thou tion verbs ending Visarga Vriddhi words कृ तां ते प्रति भू यत् सम्
Passatges populars
Pàgina xi - Hindus, their daily observances, their occupations, their amusements, their domestic and social relations, their local legends, their national traditions, their mythological fables, their metaphysical abstractions, their religious worship — all spring from, and are perpetuated by the Sanskrit language. To know a people, these things must be known : without such knowledge, revenue may be raised, justice may be administered, the outward shows and forms of...
Pàgina xi - ... felt or inspired, and neither the disposition nor the ability to work any great or permanent improvement in the feelings, opinions, or practices of the country will be attained.
Pàgina ix - The history of mankind can be but imperfectly appreciated without some acquaintance with the literature of the Hindus. It is, however, to the educated youth whose manhood is to be spent in India, and who is there destined to discharge high duties, and to sustain heavy responsibilities, who is to execute the offices of civilized Government over millions of Hindu subjects and to make that Government a blessing, not a curse to India; a glory, not a shame to Britain — it is to him that the study of...
Pàgina xi - Section, whose name is as much cherished by the natives of India as it is esteemed by the learned men of Europe, well remarks, it is not enough to understand the language of a people ; the people themselves must be understood with all their popular prejudices, their daily observances, their occupations, their amusements, their domestic and social relations, their local legends, their national traditions, their mythological fables, their metaphysical abstractions, and their religious worship.
Pàgina 27 - It consists of two parts: 1. the any a, 'body, or inflective base, that is the word itself; and 2. of certain particles, which, being attached to the base, complete the inflected word." He goes on to say, at the latter part of §. 51., „there is but one*) general declension in Sanskrit grammar"; and though it is convenient to divide nouns into classes, yet even then, he adds, „no arrangement admits of more reference than that which classes them according to their final letters".
Pàgina 4 - COLLEGE, April, 1853. PRELIMINARY NOTE. PRONUNCIATION. As a general rule, the Sanskrit vowels are to be sounded like those of the Italian alphabet, except the short or unaccented a, which has the sound of that letter in the word America: "pandit" a learned man, being pronounced pundit.
Pàgina 415 - Sftoka, which, with some exceptions, consists of two lines or hemistichs : each of these is again subdivided into two parts : so that the entire stanza is for the most part a tetrastich, composed of four Padas or Charanas, literally
Pàgina 416 - Annshlubh, 8x4 = 32. Twelve varieties. This is by far the most frequent and useful form of Sanskrit verse. It is that in which the great body of metrical composition, whether narrative or didactic, exists. All works of considerable extent are written in it, relieved by the occasional introduction of other measures. It is the prevailing form of metre in the laws of Manu, the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and the Puranas.
Pàgina 135 - Before proceeding to any detail of individual verbs, it is desirable that some notion should be entertained of those secondary or derivative forms of which the simple verb admits. Some of these might perhaps be more correctly designated as moods; for causality, desire, frequency, or intensity, are but different modes or conditions of the same action ; and the modifications by which they are expressed are no more to be regarded as distinct verbs because they take all the tenses of the simple verb,...
Pàgina 104 - The dhatu or radical of the Sanscrit, although in strictness it fulfils no specific grammatical function, and is equally the theme of a noun as of a verb, may be most conveniently considered as identical with the latter, as the crude verb. ... As arranged in the glossaries of roots, it is usually interpreted by an active or abstract noun in the locative case; as gam-gatau, in going; ehu-satdydn, in being, <fcc. ; intimating one general idea to which the different modifications in its derivatives...