[INDOLOGY] CORRECTION: List of paninian equivalents of western grammatical terms for sanskrit

[Jan E.M. Houben]

The available scan of the ninth edition of Apte's Guide to Sanskrit
Composition is not searchable, but from a quick glance it can be seen that
references to Paa.nini's grammar and to other grammatical texts such as the
Vaarttikas etc. are quite abundant throughout (and mostly explained in
English terminology).
In the table of contents we see parasmaipada, ātmanepada (terms even
maintained in Andrew Ollett's online grammar), and "namul or gerund in am".
The main transformation towards the use of more English grammatical terms
in Apte's Guide apparently took place between the First and the Second
edition, as is clear from the Preface to the Second edition. Here Apte
still refers to the entire Part II "GOVERNMENT" of his Guide as the
kaaraka-prakara.na.
The transition towards more English terms is a process that started several
decades before the end of the nineteenth century:  even in the first
edition of his Sanskrit grammar for beginners (1866) Max Mueller underlines
his efforts to reduce references to Paa.nini.
Best,
Jan Houben






On Fri, 6 Sept 2024 at 05:56, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> I meant to write:
>
> Jan Houben wrote:
> Historically, introductions to Sanskrit since the nineteenth century are
> rather characterized by gradually filtering out Sanskrit grammatical terms
>
> and
> Hans Hock wrote:
>
>> , as long as we don’t expect anything more than corresponding terms for
>> case marking there should be no problem
>>
>
> Looking at the table of contents to Apte's "Student's Guide to Sanskrit
> Composition (third edition 1890)"  only western grammatical terms are used.
> Does that mean that the grammar of sanskrit sentences can be correctly
> described using western grammatical terms, but it's just that those western
> grammatical terms don't correspond to Indian grammatical terms for sanskrit.
>
> Link to the ninth edition (reprint of third edition?)
>
> https://archive.org/download/StudentsGuideToSanskritComposition-VsApte1925/StudentsGuideToSanskritComposition-VsApte1925.pdf
>
> Harry Spier
>
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*Jan E.M. Houben*

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*Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite*

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