Dear all,
My Sanskrit Reader, on which many of you kindly gave me advice and several helped with proof-reading and test-driving, is finally available:
It actually was published in November, but there were various distribution hiccups in the initial weeks – hence this late announcement.
This is not the Reader that gives an overview of Sanskrit literary genres (that one is still in the works!), but the one meant to give late beginning/early intermediate students the stamina to read longer Sanskrit texts:
– Each page has text (in an actually legible font size:-)), vocab, grammar help and plenty of space for the student's own notes.
– The appendices contain transliterations and fairly literal translations of all texts, as well as a 900-word study vocabulary (with online flash cards freely available on Brainscape).
– The introduction offers an overview of syntactic topics lower intermediate students often struggle with, as well as a summary of word formation processes and compounding.
– The featured texts are 1) Hitopadeśa, 2) Vikramacarita, 3) Rāmāyaṇa, 4) Kathāsaritsāgara, 5) a longer episode from the Bṛhatkathāślokasaṃgraha, 6) a selection of around 130 subhāṣitas selected from Boehtlingk's Indische Sprueche.
Questions, comments, suggestions on anything I can do better: please simply contact me!
All my best,
Antonia