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PREFACF TO THIRD EDITION PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION INTRODUCTION: BRIEF HISTORY OF SANSKRIT GRAMMAR TABLE OF THE DEVANAGARI LETTERS CHAPTER I: The ALPHABET Relation of Sanskrit to Vedic and to the Indian Vernaculars- Origin of Indian Writing ¨C Arrangement of the Letters¨C The Vowels¨CThe Consonants-The Numerical Figures-Pronunciation CHAPTER II: §¦UPHONIC COMBINATION External Sandhi: Combination of Vowels and of Consonants- Internal Sandhi : Combination of Vowels and of Consonants CHAPTER III: DECLENSION Nouns: Consonant sterns-unchangeable-changeable: with Two Stems; with Three Stems¨CVowel stems¨CDegrees of Comparison¨C Numerals: Cardinals-Ordinals--Numeral Adverbs-Pronouns:Per- sonal¨CDemonstrative¨CInterrogative¨CRelative¨CReflexive¨CPosses- sive-Compound-Quantitative-Indefinite-Pronominal Adjectives CHAPTER IV: CONJUGATION Introductory¨CThe Present System¨CFirst Conjugation¨CSecond Conjugation ¨CThe Augment¨CReduplication ¨CTerminations¨CPara- digms¨C Irregularities ¨C The Perfect ¨C The Aorist: First Aorist¨C Sccond Aorist-Benedictive¨CFuture¨CConditional¨CPassive-Par- ticiples¨CGerund¨CInfinitive¨CDerivative Verbs : Causative¨CDesi- derative¨CIntensive¨CDenominative CHAPTER V: INDECLINABLE WORDS Prepositions ¨C Prepositional Adverbs ¨C Prepositional Substan- tives-PrepositionalGerunds-Conjunctive and Adverbial Particles- Interjections CHAPTER VI: NOMINAL STEM FORMATION AND COMPOUNDS Primary Suffixes¨CSecondary Suffixes¨C Gender ¨CVerbal Com- pounds¨CNominal Compounds : Co-ordinatives ¨C Determinatives: Dependent and Descriptive¨CPossessives CHAPTER VII: SYNTAX of Words¨CThe Article¨CNumber¨CCon- Introductory¨COrder cord¨C Pronouns ¨C Use of the Cases ¨C Locative and Genitive Absolute¨CParticiples ¨CInfinitive¨C Use of the Tenses¨CUse of the Moods-Conditional APPENDIX I: LIST OF VERBS APPENDIX II: METRE IN CLASSICAL SANSKRIT APPENDIX III: CHIEF PECULIARITIES OF VEDIC GRAMMAR 236-244 SANSKRIT INDEX GENERAL INDEX