A Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both the Classical Language, and the Older Dialects, of Veda and BrahmanaBreitkopf and Härtel, 1879 - 485 pages |
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... less fully aware than any critic of it , even the severest , is likely to be . Should it be found to answer its intended purpose well enough to come to another edition , my endeavor will be to improve and complete it : and I shall be ...
... less fully aware than any critic of it , even the severest , is likely to be . Should it be found to answer its intended purpose well enough to come to another edition , my endeavor will be to improve and complete it : and I shall be ...
Page xiii
... less of distortion to help the needs of a ceremonial which was coming to be of immense elab- oration and intricacy . And , at some time in the course of this history , there was made for preservation a great col- lection of the hymn ...
... less of distortion to help the needs of a ceremonial which was coming to be of immense elab- oration and intricacy . And , at some time in the course of this history , there was made for preservation a great col- lection of the hymn ...
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... less accepted material , and called ( among other less current names ) the Atharva - Veda , Veda of the Ath- arvans ( a legendary priestly family ) ' ; it is somewhat more than half as bulky as the Rig - Veda , and contains a certain ...
... less accepted material , and called ( among other less current names ) the Atharva - Veda , Veda of the Ath- arvans ( a legendary priestly family ) ' ; it is somewhat more than half as bulky as the Rig - Veda , and contains a certain ...
Page xvi
... less important , since they re- present a form of language in most respects intermediate between the classical and that of the Vedas , and offer spe- cimens on a large scale of a prose style , and of one which is in the main a natural ...
... less important , since they re- present a form of language in most respects intermediate between the classical and that of the Vedas , and offer spe- cimens on a large scale of a prose style , and of one which is in the main a natural ...
Page xvii
... less that is said the better . All dates given in Indian literary history are pins set up to be bowled down again . Every important work has undergone so many more or less transforming changes before reaching the form in which it comes ...
... less that is said the better . All dates given in Indian literary history are pins set up to be bowled down again . Every important work has undergone so many more or less transforming changes before reaching the form in which it comes ...
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1st sing 2d and 3d 2d pl 3d pl 3d sing a-stems accent active added adjectives adverbial anomalous aorist appears augmentless belonging Brāhmaṇa Brahmanas character class-sign cloth combination compounds conjugation consonant dative declension derivatives desiderative Edited English euphonic F. J. FURNIVALL feminine final member formation frequent gerund Grammar grammarians guna guna-strengthening Hindu imperative imperfect inflection initial irregular later language lingual masc middle forms mute namely nasal neut neuter noun number of roots occur older language once optative participle passive perfect persons precative preceding prefix preposition present present-system prior member pronominal quotable rare reduplication Rig-Veda roots ending Royal Asiatic Society rules s-aorist Sanskrit semivowel sewed sibilant simple root small number sometimes sonant sporadic stem stem-form strengthened strong forms subjunctive suffix surd tense tense-stem texts Translated u-class union-vowel usually Veda Vedic verbal verbs weak forms words
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