Perhaps I should have mentioned that as an educated European, it would not matter to my colleague whether the book is in German, French, or Italian (though Russian might be a bridge too far--I did not check about this!)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Jonathan Silk <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kauzeya@gmail.com" target="_blank">kauzeya@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br clear="all"><div>dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>I have a colleague who is a classicist, whom I may be convincing it would be great to study Sanskrit. I&#39;m not sure what would be the best book to use for someone who is entirely at home in Greek (and Latin) but doesn&#39;t know an Indic language. I thought of Stenzler, but then, which edition? Or is there a better choice? It may be disloyal given where I teach, but I consider Gonda to be impossible as anything other than a list of forms...</div>

<div><br></div><div>thanks so much in advance for the advice, jonathan</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br><span style>J. Silk</span><br style><span style>Instituut Kern / Universiteit Leiden</span><br style>

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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">J. Silk</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Instituut Kern / Universiteit Leiden</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)" color="#888888"><div>Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS</div>
<div>Johan Huizinga Building, Room 1.37</div>
<div>Doelensteeg 16</div>
<div>2311 VL Leiden</div>
<div>The Netherlands</div></font><br>