[INDOLOGY] A new Sanskrit Reader

[Madhav Deshpande]

Dear Antonia,

     Short passages from Patañjali's Mahābhāṣya, Śabara's
Mīmāṃsāsūtrabhāṣya, Śaṅkara's and Rāmānuja's Vedāntasūtrabhāṣyas would be
very useful.  Similarly, small portions of introductory Śāstric texts like
the Tarkasaṃgraha, Vedāntaparibhāṣā and Mīmāṃsā-Nyāya-Prakāśa would be
useful. Along with Kāvyas, I would suggest including a sample act of drama,
and a short section from Kāvyaśāstra.  I am assuming that your book would
serve as an introduction to Sanskrit literature in a wide sense of the
term.  I am looking forward to your work.

Madhav Deshpande
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 4:47 PM, rrocher via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Dr. Ruppel,
>
> Congratulations on your contract, and thanks for undertaking such a useful
> project.  I am retired from teaching, but I applaud this project
> nonetheless.
>
> My principal suggestion is to include, perhaps toward the end of the
> reader, samples of commentarial literature.  Vyākaraṇa and dharmaśāstra are
> good fishing ponds for such texts, but the field matters less than
> providing the learner with samples of commentarial style.
> With all best wishes,
> Rosane Rocher
>
> On 6/12/17 4:03 PM, Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I just received a contract to write a new intermediate Sanskrit Reader --
> a 21st-century Lanman, if you will. Its aims will be to help students apply
> and practice their grammar knowledge, increase their vocabulary and their
> reading stamina, and give them a taste of a broader variety of Sanskrit
> textual genres.
>
> Each text extract will be up to about ten pages long and come with an
> introduction, as well as grammar and vocabulary notes on every page.
> Several members of this list have already very kindly made excellent
> suggestions for texts or text excerpts that they would like to see included
> in the Reader; but given the wonderful breadth and enormous collective
> experience of this list, I would like to ask all of you: are there any
> texts or even specific passages that you have always wished existed in a
> format suited for presentation to intermediate students?
>
> The more broadly useful the Reader might prove to the members of our field
> who are involved in Sanskrit instruction, the better; so if you have any
> suggestions or ideas, I would love to hear them. I am of course very happy
> to give credit to anyone who shares their thoughts with me.
>
> If you have any questions about how I am intending to structure the
> Reader, what I am so far planning to include etc, please don't hesitate to
> ask.
>
> All the best,
>    Antonia
>
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