Dear Antonia Ruppel

In 2013 I have made a list of good books to learn Sanskrit, I am attaching here the list of the same. from that books you can add extracts.

(I have 2 notes while reading the above list
1.Please bear my English Grammar mistakes.
2. Some of the books I was not able to procure at that time like Appa Shatry Rashiwadekar's book etc, which I could collect few of them later and I can say Appa Shastry writings are excellent and stand top among all)

I have few suggestions

Add sentences like this 

इह खलु सकलकविशिरोमणिः कालिदासः 'काव्यं यशस' इत्याद्यालङ्कारिकवचनप्रमाण्यात् काव्यस्यानेकश्रेयःसाधनतां 'काव्यालापांश्च वर्जयेत्' इत्यस्य निषेधशास्त्रस्यासत्काव्यविषयताञ्च पश्यन् रघुवंशाख्यं महाकाव्यं चिकीर्षुश्चिकीर्तितार्थाविघ्नपरिसमाप्तिसम्प्रदायाविच्छेदलक्षणफलसाधनभूतविशिष्टदेवतानमस्कारस्य शिष्टाचारपरिप्राप्तत्वात् आशीर्नम... इत्याशीराद्यन्यतमस्य प्रबन्धमुखलक्षणत्वात्काव्यनिर्माणस्य विशिष्टशब्दार्थप्रतिपत्तिमूलकत्वेन विशिष्टशब्दार्थयोश्च ..शब्दजात... इति वायुपुराणसंहिता वचनबलेन.... अभिवादयते–

The above extract is taken from Raghuvamsa Commentary by Mallinatha.
 
And from Kavya Prakasa, there is a sentence from the first chapter, which begins with

कालिदासादीनामिव यशः....and ends with सर्वथा यतनीयम्

in the above sentence even the editor has committed mistake in some editions, because not knowing where to put the full stop for the sentence.

The spirit of such sentences can be understood easily, but difficult to analyze or split the compounds etc.

Modern Author's writings suggestion

1. Narayana Shatry Khiste (Daridranam Hrdayam, Vidvat Charita Panchakam etc)

2. Ganapaty Shastry T editor of Bhasanataka chakra( his preface and Pathavali reader which is available on archives.org,   and Bharatanuvarnanam)

3. Appa Shastry Rashiwadekar (Lavanyamayi, preface of Buddha charita etc available on DLI)
4. Charudeva Shastry ( Gandhi Charita which contains aorist in almost all sentences. Vakyamuktavali has special sentences. Prastava Tarangini which has verbs with Upasarga which is the most difficult thing in Sanskrit Like व्यश्नुते=occupies, अभ्युपगच्छति=aggrees etc.)
5. Prefaces of old Sanskrit books ( Vindhyeshwar Prasad Dwivedi, Appa Shastry Rashiwadekar, Charudeva Shastry, Ganapati Shatry T, Venimadhava Shukla, Rajanarayana Shukla, )

6. Writings from Sanskrit Journals like Sahrdaya, Chandrika etc

Information of all the above books are easily available on Worldcat or DLI. One can research more books by the author and can find out which is suitable for the reader.

I hope my suggestion is relevant

Thanks

Krishna Prasad

On 18-Jun-2017 4:02 AM, "Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY" <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear Dominik,

Thank you for also bringing Brough to my attention! 

I think he, and the various other Readers in existence, have many strengths and present excellent choices of texts, but at least those that don't focus on one particular genre often either have no or far too few notes to help students along. If, as we were talking about at an earlier point in this exchange, we want to give students regular little success experiences, then the right amount of notes, given in a format they are used to and right there on the page, to me seems the best way forward.

The 'right amount of notes' will be interpreted differently by different people; to me it means commenting on anything irregular, but also on anything that, while regular, is difficult to recognise for whatever reason, providing vocabulary, and briefly explaining matters of context. The challenge then is to provide all this without making such a wealth of notes confusing rather than helpful.

Thank you also for the link to his archive! Some of those items would be fascinating to access.

All best,

    Antonia

On 17 June 2017 at 17:17, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@gmail.com> wrote:

Another lesser-known reader is John Brough's 1978 Selections from Classical Sanskrit Literature.  Also in roman script.  Like everything Brough did, it's original and valuable.

Best,

Dominik

NB: Brough's archive, including interesting unpublished materials.

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On 16 June 2017 at 01:28, Antonio Ferreira-Jardim via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear Antonia,

Can I suggest taking a look at AK Warder's often overlooked (and
unfortunately devanagari-devoid) "Sanskrit Prose Reader"? He includes
an excellent collection of texts and notes. The publisher - University
of Toronto - are unfortunately very unhelpful at providing copies but
resourceful researchers can find copies elsewhere. :)

Another useful reader which again lacks devanagari and whose
explanations are somewhat less than helpful is Gonda's Sanskrit Reader
- which focuses on the Epics & Puranas.

I have a feeling that both of these texts would have proved more
popular if they had been in devanagari but with the advances in OCR
and word processing - that should be easy to rectify.

Kind regards,
Antonio Ferreira-Jardim
UQ

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY
<indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
> Dear Patrick,
>
> Thank you for this great suggestion! As I said, I'm thinking of pairing up
> the book with a website on which to put the texts I can't include if I aim
> at having a Reader less voluminous than the Petersburg Dictionary:-). Still,
> at least some short-ish excerpts from modern Sanskrit texts might be just
> the thing to include at the end of the physical reader.
>
> Thanks again,
>    and all the best,
>         Antonia
>
> On 16 June 2017 at 04:49, patrick mccartney <psdmccartney@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Antonia,
>>
>> Perhaps, for the 2nd volume of the reader (if you include all the
>> wonderful suggestions of the members of the list, it seems you'll need a few
>> volumes at least), you might consider including more recent Sanskrit texts -
>> one that comes to mind is the UN Declaration of Universal Human Rights.
>> Including a Sanskrit version, it has been translated into 370 languages.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Patrick McCartney, PhD
>> Fellow
>> School of Culture, History & Language
>> College of the Asia-Pacific
>> The Australian National University
>> Canberra, Australia, 0200
>>
>>
>> Skype - psdmccartney
>> Phone + Whatsapp:  +61 414 954 748
>> Twitter - @psdmccartney
>>
>>
>> bodhapūrvam calema ;-)
>>
>> academia
>>
>> Linkedin
>>
>> Edanz
>>
>> YogaTrade
>>
>> Modern Yoga Research
>>
>> #yogabodyANU2016 symposium
>>
>> Politics beyond the yoga mat
>>
>> The Sanitising Power of Spoken Sanskrit
>>
>> Imagining Sanskrit Land
>>
>> Ep1 - Imagining Sanskrit Land
>>
>> Ep 2 - Total-am
>>
>> Ep 3 - Jalam ≠ Chillum
>>
>> Ep 4 - It's Time to get Married
>>
>> A Day in our Ashram
>>
>> Stop animation short film of Shakuntala
>>
>> Forced to Clean Human Waste
>>
>> One of my favourite songs
>>
>> The Philosophy of Cycling
>>
>> Plato's Cave
>>
>> Endangered Languages MOOC
>>
>> Blackfella-Whitefella
>>
>>
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