TEACH YOURSELF COMPLETE SANSKRIT

My parents are PHD - father and MPhil - mother in Sanskrit. I am a novice when it comes to Sanskrit as I never studied Sanskrit as a subject. However, as I intend to get to meaning of ancient texts and all, I bought this book. I was a little skeptical when I placed order as I am a science student and practitioner for 22 years. I wondered how it will help me. The Book as it says it will definitely take a person from level 1 to level 4 proficiency because it goes scientific, illustrative with examples and starts with the base. Easy to comprehend and understand it focus on word roots, basics of grammar and provides with vocabulary at the end. It explains tenses in detail with a focus on imperfect tenses as an example. Talks about Sandhi (which is at root of Hindi and Sanskrit). A must buy as a reference book. Not merely a crash course this is a book for bookshelf for long time!

The book is compact and yet comprehensive. One can use it to learn Sanskrit as well as to refer as Grammer book. Though if you already know devnagri script or Hindi, you may get puzzled up with pronunciation guide, which you actually don't need. Else an excellent book, which I am using as a reference book for Sanskrit Grammer.

I had a little bit disappointment about this book, at many places the author has given the Sanskrit words in English only but I prefer to read them in Sanskrit script also.

It was mentioned that the item was a hard cover one. But I have received only a paper back book.

Lovely book - it complements my other Sanskrit text well. Clear concise well written - good book

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Un ottimo libro (praticamente introvabile in Italia) a meno di €20. Quando l'ho visto, dopo mesi di ricerche, non riuscivo a crederci. Non conoscevo l'edizione con questa copertina, ma il contenuto è lo stesso delle precedenti. Le parole in sanscrito si leggono in modo chiaro. Contiene un dizionario Inglese/Sanscrito Sanscrito/Inglese più che sufficiente per lo svolgimento degli esercizi proposti.

Take a deep breath before embarking on this course - it's extremely thorough and takes no prisoners. If you're serious about learning Sanskrit, it's certainly the best textbook available in English, with very detailed explanations, and particular focus on syntax and compounds. It would be possible to raise gripes about this and that - for example, the grammatical explanations are very wordy and sometimes a bit indigestible, and I would have preferred the material divided into thirty rather than fifteen lessons - but nothing that would detract from my five-star rating. Each unit contains between 40 and 50 practice sentences, many of which startle with their strangeness ("But we are forest-dwellers, to whom riding in a chariot is unfamiliar" or "I do not of course truly have a passion for the ascetic's daughter"). If you learn these sentences well, you gain a good command of Sanskrit. I do have one big gripe about this edition - the devanagari text appears to have been reset in a different font, and in the process some errata have crept in (mainly missing vowel marks). I would recommend hunting down the original edition in a copy from the 1970s or the 1980s, in which there are no errors and the layout and fonts are far more attractive than in this edition.

Super dense to read. But it will absolutely take you from 0 to level 4 Sanskrit.

A firstclass book about the Sanskrit language. No comparison. A gift to my father who is very interested. Thank You, Amazon!

I find this book very technical and unintuitive to learn from. Though it may contain a lot of correct information, I find it overloaded for someone who just wants to get a first familiarity with Sanskrit. Maybe for technical linguists it is a delight to read. Another point of criticism is the small print of the devanagiri and other text elements.