Re: Books for sanskrit self-study

Skrivet en doa Roger Mills:
> I tried that years ago (1951 aargh), using Perry's "Sanskrit Primer"
> (Columbia U.P.). An obstacle quickly emerged after the first few chapters--
> everything thereafter was written in Devanagari (and worse, tiny print), no
> more romanization...and I found the script difficult, especially all the
> ligatures.  Gave up.
>
> During grad.school one summer I took an introductory course-- all in
> romanization, and much easier; I actually learned a bit. But of course one
> does need to learn the script.
>
> There may well be teaching materials that are more modern. :-))))))
> Perhaps Indian publishers produce useful stuff.
>
> I checked Amazon.com "Sanskrit grammar"-- 153 cites, many types/prices,
> though no "teach yourself...". #1, the Whitney, I think is pretty much the
> standard ref., although old. Monier-Williams rings a bell, too.  All cites
> from ca. #60 on, are "currently unavailable".
>
>
There is a teach yourself Sanskrit by Michael Coulson

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071468528/qid=1151958588/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-8129599-7891136?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

Of course, completing this kind of course requires some motivation (I
for one never could) and, as Roger said, the writing is not the easiest
one on Earth.

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