A Sanskrit Reader: Text and Vocabulary and Notes

by Charles Rockwell Lanman

Book Overview

This reader is designed to serve as an introduction to the subject for the students and to provide knowledge of Sanskrit to the teachers of high schools, academies and colleges. The work helps to correct some of the false notions which are prevalent respecting the relations of Sanskrit to other languages of the Indo-European family. It also keeps saving the literature from undue depreciation and from exaggerated praise. The author has made selections...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674789008
• ISBN13: 9780674789005
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"