Re: Books for sanskrit self-study

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".

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