A Grammar of the Sanskrîta Languageauthor, 1808 - 662 Seiten |
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according to fome active voice adjectives affix alfo alſo cafe called Caufe cauſal cauſes changed claſs common form compound confonant conjugated declined Defire denote diftinguiſhed dropped Dual epithet examples fame feminine fervile fingular firſt four tenſes fubjoined fuch fyllable gender increaſe Indra inflected Injure laſt mafculine Mode Mode X moſt naſal neuter nouns occafionally paffive participle perſon Plur preceded prefixed prepoſition preſent Present Tense proper form proper name radical vowel reduplication reſpect reſt roots ending rule Sama Veda ſame ſecond ſenſe ſerve ſhine ſhort Siva ſome ſometimes ſpecies ſtands ſtate ſubſtantive ſubſtituted ſuch tenfes termination theſe third preterit thoſe uſed Veda verb Vishnu vowel whoſe words Worſhip अन् उन् उप कृ गम् जन् तू दा धर्म नि न् पा प्र भू मा म् य् वि स् हन्
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Seite viii - Brahmins, and .appropriated solely to the records of their religion, appears to have been current over most of the Oriental world ; and traces of its original extent may still be discovered in almost every district of Asia.
Seite viii - Greek ; and those not in technical and metaphorical terms, which the mutuation of refined arts and improved manners might have occasionally introduced, but in the groundwork of language, in monosyllables, in the names of numbers, and the appellations of such things as would be first discriminated on the immediate dawn of civilization.
Seite viii - Brahmins, and appropriated solely to the records of their religion, appears to have been current over most of the Oriental world ; and traces of its original extent may still be discovered in almost every district of Asia.
Seite 10 - The proper found of this letter is produced by applying the tip of the tongue to the fore part of the palate, and...
Seite 1 - is a compound participle, literally signifying altogether, or completely made, done, or formed, (Latin, confectus,) from the inseparable preposition sam, altogether, or together, (Latin, col, com, con, cor,) and krita, done, with the interposition of a silent a, which letter being a dental, requires that the labial nasal which precedes it should be pronounced as a dental also, namely as n. The word, in its common acceptation, denotes a thing to have been composed or formed by art, Adorned, embellished,...
Seite v - Court of Directors for the affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies...
Seite x - The lover of science, the antiquary, the historian, the moralist, the poet, and the man of taste, will obtain in Sanskrit books an inexhaustible fund of information and amusement. Besides the Vedas, there exist at this day numerous original treatises of considerable antiquity, on astronomy...
Seite xi - ... abstract ideas, or terms in science, would be absolutely reduced to a state of barbarism. These, and the idioms peculiar to Bengal, Kamarupa, and the adjacent provinces ; the Tamul, the Telinga, the Carnatic, the Malabar, together with that of the Maratta states, and of Gujarat, so abound with Sanskrit, that scarcely a sentence can be expressed in either of them without its assistance. The learned languages of Tibet, of Ava, and of Ceilon, are enriched by it ; and every one of them is indebted...
Seite x - ... of examination; various systems of philosophy and metaphysics ; innumerable tracts on grammar, elocution, logic, the art of poetry, music, medicine, ethics, politics, and other topics; with sublime and elegant poems on every variety of subject ; more particularly those grand mythological treasures, the ancient poems called Puranas, an endless assemblage of enchanting allegory and fable, and of the most interesting stories of ancient times...
Seite xii - At the commencement of the year 1795, residing in the country, and having much leisure, I began to arrange my materials, and prepare them for publication. I cut letters in steel, made matrices and moulds, and cast from them a fount of types of the Deva-nagari character, all with my own hands...