Thanks to everyone who responded to my query regarding early Sanskrit
grammar books. Although I still was not able to get access to Colebrooke’s
grammar, I have been able to track down quite a few interesting works. For
those interested in this sort of thing, nearly all the early works are available
in digitized form, among them grammars by Wilkins, Bopp (translated into
English), Kielhorn, and Benfey. The “standard” grammar works by Max
Mueller, Whitney, Monier-Williams, Bhandarkar, and Macdonell are also available
(the genealogies of these works is well-known, but interesting to review
nonetheless). Additionally, Cambridge University has just issued a reprint
of Wilkins’s 1808 grammar in a highly readable and fairly sturdy paperback
edition ( I have no idea why the press undertook this project, but if anyone has
any inside information, please do fill me in).
with regards to the list-members
Herman Tull