Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both the Classical Language and the Older Dialects of Veda and Brahmana (Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium) - Hardcover

Whitney, Wd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674788109 ISBN 13: 9780674788107

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1974

Synopsis

Sanskrit Grammar - Including both the Classical Language, and the Older Dialects, of Veda and Brahmana, 2nd ed

By The late William Dwight Whitney was Professor of Sanskrit at Yale University, Knight of the Prussian Orden Pour le Mérite, Corresponding Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institute of France, etc., and Editor-in-Chief of The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language.

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The late William Dwight Whitney was Professor of Sanskrit at Yale University, Knight of the Prussian Orden Pour le Mérite, Corresponding Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institute of France, etc., and Editor-in-Chief of The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language.

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It was in June, 1875, as I chanced to be for a day or two in Leipzig, that I was unexpectedly invited to prepare the Sanskrit grammar for the Indo-European series projected by Messrs. Breitkopf and Hartel. After some consideration, and consultation with friends, I accepted the task, and have since devoted to it what time could be spared from regular duties, after the satisfaction of engagements earlier formed. If the delay seems a long one, it was nevertheless unavoidable; and I would gladly, in the interest of the work itself, have made it still longer. In every such case, it is necessary to make a compromise between measurably satisfying a present pressing need, and doing the subject fuller justice at the cost of more time; and it seemed as if the call for a Sanskrit grammar on a somewhat different plan from those already in use--excellent as some of these in many respects are--was urgent enough to recommend a speedy completion of the work begun.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674788109
• ISBN 13: 9780674788107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 566