संस्कृतसहकारी व्याकरणम्: Sanskrit-sahakari (helper to Sanskrit) Grammar

This is Part 1 of the book Sanskrit-sahakari (helper to Sanskrit). It has eight chapters. Chapters one, two, and three give a brief overview of the Sanskrit language without going into too much grammar, chapters four to seven give the grammar details of a few basic topics like nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, indeclinables, suffixes, and sandhi and chapter eight gives the grammatical analysis of a few verses from the Bhagavad Gétä . A brief summary of each chapters is as follows: Chapter one gives a brief history of the Sanskrit grammar. Chapter two discusses the alphabets and their pronunciation. Chapter three outlines the basic structure of the language with a brief description of the building blocks. Some of these blocks are explained in greater detail in chapters four to seven. Chapter four describes nouns, pronouns, and adjectives and gives the declension tables for words for masculine, feminine, and neuter genders. Commonly used indeclinables are also discussed. Chapter five describes the verb forms in present and past tense and imperative and potential moods in both active and passive voices. Conjugation tables of many common roots are given for both the tenses and moods. Chapter six discusses the use of the कृत् ( kåt ) suffix. Chapter seven describes the सन्धिः ( sandhiù ) rules for vowel, consonant, and visarga . The sandhi rules are summarized compactly in easy to read tables. The concepts in chapters four to seven are illustrated through many examples, some of them taken from the Bhagavad Gétä . Chapter 8 gives the grammatical analysis of a few verses from the Bhagavad Gétä . Part 2 of the book contains sixty simple Sanskrit short stories with English translations. The first set of thirty stories are with and without sandhi. They will help the students understand the sandhi rules and grammar. The last thirty stories are without sandhi and the students are encouraged to do the sandhi themselves. These stories are meant to be read loudly for correct pronunciation. They will also help in improving the vocabulary. A number of सुभाषित-s ( subhäñitas – good sayings) with English meanings are also given. Please visit my website https://arshavidyacenter.org/class/sanskrit/ for additional links for the pronunciation of alphabets, practice work sheets on writing alphabets, grammar, tutorials, documents, books, etc. – ASIN: B09NRJTVQK | ISBN13: 9798753364999 | ISBN-13: 979-8753364999