Introduction to Sanskrit
The unit aims to introduce students to the basics of Sanskrit grammar as a foundation for the reading of Sanskrit texts, and involves the completion of weekly Sanskrit-English and English-Sanskrit exercises and the preparation of short passages for reading.
Main textbook
- R. P. Goldman and S. J. Sutherland, Devavaa.niiprave"sikaa: An Introduction to the Sanskrit Language (Berkeley: Center for South and South East Asia Studies, University of California, 1987)
Supplemented by
- M. Coulson, Sanskrit: An Introduction to the Classical Language (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1976).