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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> 11-07-03 01:13, Rob wrote:
>
> > I've been trying to look for Vedic conjugations online, but to no
> > avail. Can anyone help, either by posting the conjugations here,
or
> > pointing to some useful websites?
>
> Rob,
>
> Outside cyberspace, there lies a real world. Beside websites, there
> exist libraries and bookshops. Sanskrit grammars distinguish ten
(10)
> classes of verbs (conjugations). To meet your order, one would have
to
> cite more than a hundred forms per verb to illustrate the form of
the
> Sanskrit tenses/aspects, moods and voices for each conjugation. The
best
> course for you, if you're really interested, would be to get hold
of a
> book that describes them in a beginner-friendly way.
Vedic Grammar for Students
by A.A. Macdonnell (Hardcover - 1997)
Editions: Hardcover | Paperback
seems a good book. You can get a lot out of it without having to
learn to read devanagari. It does warn you where the forms are
unattested.
Piotr forgot to mention the variations between verbs within a
conjugation. They can be quite significant.
The problems with the real world are that you have to (a) wait, (b)
pay as you go and (c) use it in other people's working hours, which
tend to coincide with your own. With cyberspace, payment is less
related to how much you use it - fixed/sunk costs tend to dominate.
There isn't much in Cyberspace for Classical Sanskrit, let alone
Vedic Sanskrit. I'm still waiting for confirmation that Classical
Sanskrit *ninyima 'we lead' (perfect, root ni:) is wrong - see
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/22542 .
Richard.