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

[Harry Spier]

As an aside, the first part of Apte's A Student's Guide to Sanskrit
Composition is available in a searchable form online (unfortunately just to
the end of chapter 17 ) on the website  payer.de , and can be searched
using Google's search a site feature, just add site:payer.de/Apte/ in front
of your search term in google.

Harry Spier


On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 3:40 AM Jan E.M. Houben <jemhouben at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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> 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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>
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