The Joy of Sanskrit
A first-year syllabus for tertiary students
Authored by: McComas Taylor , Grazia ScotellaroPlease read Conditions of use before downloading the formats.
Description
The Joy of Sanskrit is a complete first-year course of twenty-five weeks designed for university students. We teach Sanskrit as a living tradition. This is in recognition of the fact that many of our students have backgrounds in Indic religions and Indian cultural practices, including yoga, art, music, dance and song. As a living tradition, we believe that the reception of language (especially the ability to read), should be balanced with its production (writing, speaking, chanting and singing). With this in view, each weekly unit has three parts: 1. simple Sanskrit conversational patterns, 2. a verse from the oral tradition, and 3. the all-important grammar section. The grammar is based on the textbook Introduction to Sanskrit by Prof. Thomas Egenes. Each week includes introductory videos, audio files to help you with correct pronunciation, and an audio commentary on the text book.
By the end of the course, you will be able to conduct a coherent conversation on a range of simple topics, you be able to chant accurately twenty-six well-known verses, and you will have a good grasp of all the most common grammatical forms, so that you are ready to begin reading simple narratives.
In addition to this Joy of Sanskrit e-text, you will need to purchase Introduction to Sanskrit, Parts 1 and 2. (T. Egenes, Motilal Banarsidass, 3rd edition or later), as it contains all the written exercises and solutions.
The Joy of Sanskrit etext is in ePub format, and you will need multimedia-enabled epub reader to access the video and audio content successfully.
- If you have an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, open The Joy of Sanskrit in iBooks
- If you have an Android tablet, you will need this app: epubreader
- If you have a Mac, Bookreader Lite works very well
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If you are running Windows, you can read the ePub with Azardi, available here: http://azardi.infogridpacific.com/azardi-download.html
You can choose to download the complete Joy of Sanskrit e-text or to download each half as separate files.
This textbook is used as course material in:
For more information about studying a language at the ANU, please visit the College of Asia and the Pacific Languages website and take a look at the School of Culture, History and Language’s Language Guide (PDF, 2.2 MB).
Details
- ISBN (online):
- 9781925021554
- Publication date:
- Feb 2014
- Imprint:
- ANU Press Languages
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/JS.02.2014
- Disciplines:
- Arts & Humanities: Cultural Studies, Modern Languages; Social Sciences: Education & Training
- Countries:
- South Asia: India
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