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From: Joyce Reid [jreid at cambridge.org]
Subject: Grammar of the Sanskrit Language: Wilkins
 

	
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Title: Grammar of the Sanskrit Language 
Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	
Author: Charles Wilkins

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108030267 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 31.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108030267 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 48.00


Abstract:

While working for the East India Company in Bengal, Charles Wilkins (1749-
1836) became one of first Europeans to master the Sanskrit language. He 
proceeded to set up a printing press in Calcutta to publish works in Sanskrit and 
other Indian languages. Wilkins also undertook further related projects, including 
this work, published in London in 1808, which was part of his larger scheme to 
write a dictionary of the language and to translate a great epic poem, the 
Mahabharata. The grammar was the only part of the project that was completed. 
He never finished the dictionary, and only translated about one-third of the 
poem, though the part he worked on, the Bhagavad-Gita, became famous. The 
grammar attempts a comprehensive explanation of the language, ranging from 
the Devanagari alphabet to indeclinable words, and it was a vital resource in 
making Indian languages accessible to an English-speaking public. 



Preface

1. Of the elements
2. Orthography
3. Declension of nouns
4. Declension of pronouns and pronominals
5. Conjugation of verbs
6. On the formation of participles and participial nouns
7. On the formation of derivative words
8. Indeclinable words
9. On the formation of compound words
10. Genders of nouns
11. Syntax

Errata 


Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Sanskrit (san)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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