Macdonell's Grammar

Macdonell's Grammar

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  • CONTENTS
  • 1. TABLE OF DEVANĀGARĪ LETTERS
  • CHAPTER I
  • 1. Sanskrit
  • 2. From the Vedic language
  • 3. A form of Scientific Writing
  • 4. The Devanāgirī alphabet
  • 5. The Vowels
  • 6. Sounds of Devanāgirī alphabet
  • 7. Anusvāra
  • 8. In writing the Devanāgirī alphabet
  • 9. Consonants
  • 10. When the five nasals
  • 11. If a consonant is immediately
  • 12. Modifications of simple Consonants
  • 13. List of Componud Consonants
  • 14. The Numerical Figures
  • 15. Pronunciation
  • CHAPTER II
  • 16. In Sanskrit
  • 17. Vowels are divided
  • 18. Combination of Final and Initial Vowels
  • 19. a and ā
  • 20. Liquid vowel
  • 21. The Guṇa Vowels
  • 22. The Vṛddhi Vowels
  • 23. Vṛiddhi instead of Guṇa
  • 24. Interjectional Particals
  • 25. The Vowels
  • 26. In the Epics
  • 27. The rules of Sandhi
  • 28. No word may end
  • 29. Place or organ of articulation
  • 30.Quality of Consonants
  • 31. Essential to remember
  • 32. Final Consonants
  • 33. k,ṭ,t,p
  • 34. Final t
  • 35. Since the nasals
  • 36. The dental nasal
  • 37. The only four
  • 38. Final t before palatals
  • 39. Final t before ṭ
  • 40. Final n before j
  • 41. Before ḍ
  • 42. Fianl m remains
  • 43. Final Visarga
  • 44. Visarga (except)
  • 45. The Final Syllable āḥ
  • 46. The Final Syllable aḥ
  • 47. r followed
  • 48. The two Pronouns
  • 49. bhoḥ
  • 50. Nouns
  • 51. Doubling of Consonants
  • 52. Fianl ṅ
  • 53. Initial ś
  • 54. Initial h
  • 55. If gh
  • 56. The rules of internal sandhi
  • 57. In many cases
  • 58. Final ṝ
  • 59. e, ai, o
  • 60. The most notable divergence
  • 61. Nominal or verbal
  • 62. Aspirates
  • 63. Palatals
  • 64. Cerebrals
  • 65. Change of dental n to cerebral ṇ
  • 66. The dental n
  • 67. Change of dental s to cerebral ṣ
  • 68. The labial m
  • 69. The soft breathing h
  • CHAPTER III
  • 70. Declension
  • 71. Normal Case Endings
  • 72. An important distinction
  • 73. The strong stem
  • 74. Nouns
  • 75. Unchangeable Stems
  • 76. Final consonants
  • 77. Stems in Dentals
  • 78. Stems in Labials
  • 79. Stems in Palatals
  • 80. Stems in Cerebrals
  • 81. Stems in h
  • 82. Stems in r
  • 83. Stems in s
  • 84. Changeable Stems
  • 85. Nouns with Two Stems
  • 86. The stems of the adjectives
  • 87. Adjectives formed with the suffix
  • 88. Comparatives
  • 89. Nouns with Three Stems
  • 90. Nouns
  • 91. Irregular Stem
  • 92. The root
  • 93. Adjectives in ac
  • 94. The beginner
  • 95. The feminines
  • 96. Irregular Nouns with Changeable Stems
  • 97. Stems ending in Vowels
  • 98. Stems in i and u
  • 99. Irregularities
  • 100. Stems in ī and ū
  • 101. Stems in ṛ
  • 102. Stems in ai, o,au
  • 103. Degrees of Comparison
  • 104. Numerals
  • 105. Declension of Cardinals
  • 106. Six
  • 107. Ordinals
  • 108. Numeral Adverbs and other Derivatives
  • 109. Pronouns
  • 110. Demonstrative Pronouns
  • 111. Pronominal roots
  • 112. Demonstrative pronoun
  • 113. Interrogative pronoun
  • 114. Relative pronoun
  • 115. Reflexive pronouns
  • 116. Possesive pronouns
  • 117. Compound pronouns
  • 118. Addind vat
  • 119. The interrogative ka
  • 120. Pronominal Adjective
  • CHAPTER IV
  • 121. Sanskrit verbs
  • 122. Five tenses
  • 123. The Present System
  • 124. The Ten Classes
  • 125. First Conjugation
  • 126. Second Conjugation
  • 127. Second or Ad class
  • 128. The Augment
  • 129. Reduplication
  • 130. Special rule of Reduplication for the Third class
  • 131. Terminations
  • 132. Paradigms
  • 133. Irregularities of the Prsent Stem
  • 134. Second Conjugation
  • 135. The Present Tense
  • 136. Singular perfect active is strong
  • 137. The Weak stem
  • 138. Paradigms of the Reduplicated Perfect
  • 139. Irregularities
  • 140. Periphrastic Perfect
  • 141. Aorist
  • 142. The other three forms
  • 143. Second or s-form
  • 144. Irregularities of the s-form
  • 145. Third or iṣ form
  • 146. Fourth or siṣ form
  • 147. Second Aorist
  • 148. Second Form
  • 149. Third or Reduplicated Form
  • 150. Benedictive or Precative
  • 151. Simple Future
  • 152. Periphrastic Future
  • 153. Conditional
  • 154. Passive
  • 155. Aorist Passive
  • 156. Participles, Grund and Infinitive
  • 157. Reduplicated perfect
  • 158. Ātmanepada and Passive Participles
  • 159. Perfect Ātm.
  • 160. Perfect Passive
  • 161. By adding the possesive suffix
  • 162. The Future Passive Participle
  • 163. Gerund or Indeclinable Participle
  • 164. Verb is compounded
  • 165. tya is added
  • 166. Rare Indeclinable Participle
  • 167. Infinitive
  • 168. Derivative Verbs
  • 169. Desideratives
  • 170. Special Rules of Reduplication
  • 171. Irregularities
  • 172. Intensives Frequentatives
  • 173. Reduplicative syllable take Guṇa
  • 174. gṛ awake
  • 175. Denominatives
  • CHAPTER V
  • 176. Indeclinable Words
  • 177. Prepositional Adverbs
  • 178. Case-notions
  • 179. Prepositional Gerunds
  • 180. Conjuctive and Adverbial Particles
  • 181. Interjections
  • CHAPTER VI
  • 182. Nominal Stem Formation and Compounds
  • 183. Gender for the Sanskrit Noun
  • 184. Verbal Compounds
  • 185. Nominal Compounds
  • 186. Co-ordinative Compounds
  • 187. Dependant Determinatives
  • 188. Discriptive Determinatives
  • 189. Possesive Compounds
  • CHAPTER VII
  • 190. Outlines of Syntax
  • 191. The Order of Words
  • 192. The Article
  • 193. Number
  • 194. Concord
  • 195. Pronouns
  • 196. The Cases
  • 197. Accusative
  • 198. Double Accusative
  • 199. Instrumental
  • 200. Dative
  • 201. Ablative
  • 202. Genitive
  • 203. Locative
  • 204. Anwering to the question
  • 205. Locative and Genitive Absolute
  • 206. Participles
  • 207. Present Participles
  • 208. Past Participles
  • 209. Future Participles Passive
  • 210. Indeclinable Participles
  • 211. Infinitive
  • 212. Tenses and Moods - Present
  • 213. Past Tenses
  • 214. Future
  • 215. Imperative
  • 216. Optative or Potential
  • 217. Benedictive or Precative
  • 218. Conditional
  • APPENDIX I - List of Verbs
  • APPENDIX II - Metre
  • APPENDIX III - Vedic Grammar
  • SANSKRIT INDEX
  • GENERAL INDEX

CONTENTS

  1. TABLE OF THE DEVANĀGARĪ LETTERS
  2. CHAPTER I
  3. CHAPTER II
  4. CHAPTER III
  5. CHAPTER IV
  6. CHAPTER V
  7. CHAPTER VI
  8. CHAPTER VII
  9. APPENDIX I
  10. APPENDIX II
  11. APPENDIX III
  12. SANSKRIT INDEX
  13. GENERAL INDEX

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