संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby Babelfish » 2013-06-14, 8:30

Took me four or five tries until I could more-or-less follow the reciter in the first part... Didn't even try the second :blush: At least it seems clear to me now that the visarga is pronounced like an h with an echo of the preceding vowel - according to Wikipedia it is an allophone of s and the declension tables there show final s's, so I was confused...
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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby Meera » 2013-06-22, 17:40

I can't believe they have a youtube channel of Sanskrit news! Thats awesome.
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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby Meera » 2013-10-28, 16:05

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dq4xzgK41M

I could listen to this all day, it's so beautiful.
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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby Babelfish » 2013-11-01, 21:46

संस्कृतेन लिखामि!... चतुरः शब्दान् :blush:

Say, does anyone know of a good summary of Sanskrit declensions? Sources I've found so far focus on the a-stems first (which are the majority, but whose endings deviate the most) and then show the other stem types (ā, i, u, ī, ū, ṛ etc.) in separate tables, without showing what they have in common, which is quite much.

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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby eien » 2013-11-02, 3:52

Not exactly a summary, but Whitney's chapter on the noun systems I think has the perspective you're talking about.

edit: his very general overview in the preceding chapter on nouns might also be useful.

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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby modus.irrealis » 2013-11-02, 12:10

Babelfish wrote:संस्कृतेन लिखामि!... चतुरः शब्दान् :blush:

tvayā likhitam avagantuṃ śaknomi. etena prīye. :D

Anyway, for looking stuff up, I really like Sanskrit Manual by Bucknell. It just seems well organized and helps me with figuring out what forms are, but I don't know if it's exactly what you want.

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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby Babelfish » 2013-11-08, 23:55

धन्यवाद युवाभ्याम् "Thank you both", I hope...
modus.irrealis, त्वामप्यवागच्छम् = त्वाम् अपि अवागच्छम् ; Again, hopefully correct, including Sandhi

I did find Whitney's book online, but it was too cluttered with exceptions and early Vedic forms IMO. And I don't intend to buy books just yet (too many languages to buy books for...). Ah well, back to making me a nice table and trying to figure it out myself :)

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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby modus.irrealis » 2013-11-09, 10:07

Babelfish wrote:धन्यवाद युवाभ्याम्

How does this work? Is it धन्यवादः + युवाभ्याम्? Then I think it should go to धन्यवादो युवाभ्याम्, right? (sandhi is evil).

How are you learning Sanskrit. I've been going through some lesson-books, but I'm planning to start reading through this Sanskrit Reader by Lanman. Have you used this book before? Would you be interested if I posted about it here and worked through it together?

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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby Babelfish » 2013-11-15, 22:17

I'm not sure how this should work, I found "thanks" in a dictionary but I don't know if it's really used as a noun - in which case you'd be right.
Like I mentioned above, I had started studying via free resources on the Internet... of which there seem to be quite a few. I'm still at a very initial stage, though.

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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby modus.irrealis » 2013-11-19, 21:39

I'm still struggling with the devanagari script. I think I finally know the values of the various symbols well enough, but It's extremely frustrating, especially with the words not being separated. It seems like you need a really good knowledge of Sanskrit in order to read it, but you can't get that knowledge without being able to read it....

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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby Babelfish » 2013-12-13, 18:07

Reminds me of Chinese :P
I've skimmed through Whitney's declension tables a couple of times more, and they do seem useful when ignoring the many exceptions and Vedic forms described around... The Wikipedia article about Sanskrit nouns pretty much summarizes this chapter, but doesn't do it very well IMHO.
The http://spokensanskrit.de dictionary shows त्वां धन्यं वदामि for "[I] thank you", so I suppose I should've used the accusative युवाम्, and separate धन्यवाद into two words because I don't really know how to use this expression in a sentence...

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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby TeneReef » 2013-12-14, 16:04

What is your favorite way of pronouncing Sanskrit?
My favorite is the Tamil way. :mrgreen:
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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby Babelfish » 2013-12-21, 16:26

I prefer the classical pronunciation (also for Latin and such), but I don't really speak Sanskrit yet...

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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby modus.irrealis » 2014-02-02, 17:53

I keep forgetting to ask, but what are the different ways? I also just use the classical pronunciation, because that's the one I'm taught in the books I've used, and they mention very few variations -- all I can think of are (the Hindi influenced?) pronunciation of ṣ as ś and and ṛ as ri.

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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby Babelfish » 2014-06-06, 17:51

Well, I did get to making a summary table of my own, which I intend to put somewhere public once I finish it.
Do you think संग्रहो विभक्तीनां संस्कृतस्य is an appropriate rendering of "Sanskrit Declension Summary"?

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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby Babelfish » 2014-06-27, 14:49

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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby księżycowy » 2014-06-27, 16:05

From a brief look over, it looks quite good! I'll save it for when I start studying some Sanskrit!

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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby Babelfish » 2014-07-05, 13:38

... aaaand revised my page about consonant conjuncts, mainly to support Sanskrit 2003 as a web font (i.e. downloaded automatically by the browser), in order to show the more complex conjuncts. Also fixed some conjuncts and comments. And renamed it...
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/67621112/Devanagari%20Conjuncts.html

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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby venkish » 2014-07-21, 6:57

Babelfish wrote:Done: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/67621112/Sanskrit%20Declension%20Summary.html.
Lemme know if you find it useful... Thanks!


Thank you for that summary. I took a screen shot of these from some free book from google. I forgot the title. You may find it useful.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/477 ... l_noun.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/477 ... ronoun.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47707940/verb.png

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Re: संस्कृता वाक् - Sanskrit!

Postby Babelfish » 2014-07-26, 13:36

I've found that after working on tables of my own I (unsurprisingly) tend to remember much better. Others may well find them useful, though. Thanks!


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