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Re: Books for sanskrit self-study

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpjonsson@...>
Date:Friday, July 7, 2006, 10:59
Kalle Bergman skrev:
> Hello! > > I'm considering to start studying sanskrit in my free > time. Maybe some of you have tips on good books to > start with; excercise books, lexicons, reference > grammars and so on? > > /Kalle B > > >
"Teach Yourself Sanskrit" by Michael Coulson is great. It's only defect is that it relies on contentually uninteresting drama text because such text is relatively easy to parse. I found it at Amazon <http://tinyurl.com/egn7d>. Apparently there is a new revised edition by "Coulson et. alii" out too. I can't vouch for that one. Since you are probably located in Sweden I looked it up at bokus.com too: <http://tinyurl.com/zkzkt>. BTW I once read about a Swedish gypsy man who came to the Sanskrit professor at Uppsala (IIRC) because he wanted to learn "Sannskriften". The net result was a description of his Romany dialect written by the professor's doctor student... -- /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se a shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot (Max Weinreich)

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