The Aruna Sanskrit Grammar Coursebook: 64 Lessons Based on the Bhagavad Gita

Title Page
Copyright
Invocation
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Using This Book
The Aruna Coursebook Introduction
The Alphabet, Lessons 1–2
L–1 Reading Devanāgarī Script
L–2 Reading the Bhagavad Gita
Rules of Coalescence – Sandhi, Lessons 3–10
L–3 Sandhi: Guṇa and Vṛddhi
L–4 General vs. Internal Sandhi
L–5 Vowel Sandhi
L–6 Special General Vowel Sandhi
L–7 Permitted Final Consonants of a Word
L–8 General and Special Visarga Sandhi
L–9 General Consonant Sandhi
L–10 Internal Vowel and Consonant Sandhi
Declension, Lessons 11–25
L–11 Declension of Nouns
L–12 Normal Case Terminations
L–13 Unchangeable Stems: Dental -t
L–14 Consonant-ending Unchangeable Stems
L–15 Changeable Stems
L–16 Two-Form Stems: -at, -mat, -vat
L–17 Two-Form Stems: -(ī)yas, -(m/v)in
L–18 Three-Form Stems: -vas, -an
L–19 Three-Form Stems: -man, -van, -ac
L–20 Vowel-ending Stems: -a
L–21 Vowel-ending Stems: -ā
L–22 Vowel-ending Stems: -i
L–23 Vowel-ending Stems: -u
L–24 Vowel-ending Stems: -ī, -ū
L–25 Vowel-ending Stems: -ṛ, Diphthongs
Pronouns and Numerals, Lessons 26–33
L–26 Personal Pronouns: aham, tvam
L–27 Pronouns: tad, etad
L–28 Pronouns: idam, adas, enad
L–29 Pronouns: yad, kim, Reflexive, Possessive
L–30 Pronouns - Pronominal Adjectives
L–31 Pronouns - Compound Pronouns
L–32 Cardinals
L–33 Ordinals
Conjugation of Verbs, Lessons 34–46
L–34 Conjugation of Verbs
L–35 Verbal Roots
L–36 Verbal Bases of the Ten Classes
L–37 Four Verbal Base Tenses and Moods
L–38 Reduplication
L–39 Irregular 1st Conjugational Verbal Bases
L–40 Irregular 2nd Conjugational Verbal Bases
L–41 Root Tenses and Moods - Perfect Tense
L–42 Aorist Tense
L–43 Benedictive, Two Futures & Conditional
L–44 Passive Formations
L–45 Derivative Formations - Causative
L–46 Desiderative, Intensive & Denominative
Formation of Words 47–58
L–47 Formation of Words - Active Participles
L–48 Middle, Past and Past Active Participles
L–49 Potential Passive Participle
L–50 Indeclinable Participles
L–51 Verbal Compounds and Prepositions
L–52 Adverbs, Particles and Interjections
L–53 Nominal Stem Formations
L–54 Primary Suffixes
L–55 Secondary Suffixes
L–56 Nominal Compounds
L–57 tat-puruṣa Compounds
L–58 bahu-vrīhi, dvan-dva, and a-vyayī-bhāva Compounds
Syntax, Lessons 59–64
L–59 Syntax
L–60 Nominative – Ablative Cases
L–61 Genitive and Locative Cases
L–62 Participles
L–63 Tenses, Moods, Passive, and Derivatives
L–64 Continuing Bhagavad Gita Studies
Index of Gita Verses to Lessons
Index of Grammar Rules to Lessons
Script Reading Exercise (for Lesson 1)
The Original Form of these Sanskrit Verses
The Translation of these Sanskrit Verses
References