Talk:Sanskrit

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Some of the transliterations and indeed the roots themselves written in the Devanagari are incorrect. For instance, the Sanskrit word for the number nine is transliterated as "nav" although it is written in the Devanagari as "nava"; and the root for English "foot" is not written with a long 'a' as the middle vowel, as it should be. Ian R.

Let's make some progress with this page, huh?

Why not just take a public domain textbook like Macdonell's A Sanskrit Grammar for Students, and put the whole thing on-line.

Congratulations and Thanks for your efforts to preserve/create content about Sanskrit here. One of the oldest and the most scientific languages of this world, and a gateway into great literary texts. I am slightly familiar with Sanskrit (and fully with Hindi). I hope to contribute what ever I can to this text.

Congrats on again and you are doing an excellent work - Pankaj

[edit] for grammarians only?

I think some of these lessons could be made more accessible. Don't worry, i know that sanskrit is extremely complex and difficult, but as far as i can tell the lesson on nouns and 'basic grammar' just sort of throws the case terms at people (Nom., Acc., Inst., etc.) without any explanation of their uses (not to mention things like (Erg./Abs.) that only linguistics buffs and nerds like me would understand upon seeing them without a great deal of explanation). You have done a very nice job so far, however, and i'd like to extend my complements. I'd like to add explanations for the grammatical terms, but need to know how to best make it fit the format and work with somebody who knows more about their particular uses in Sanskrit, as I only know them on a general level. Good luck in expanding it. 67.180.214.99 16:32, 12 May 2007 (UTC)Spencer Lamoureux