Sanskrit

The study of Sanskrit was of primary importance in the Department. Preserved in the surviving manuscripts in this language are not only scientific works of purely Hindu origin, but also treatments of now lost Greek, Babylonian and Islamic works.

Sanskrit Texts Which Dr. Pingree Reccommended to / or Read with his Students (partial list - if you can contribute more, please contact me)

• The 'Brahmasphutasiddhanta'. Esp. chapter 21 with the commentary of Prthudakasvamin (India).
  by Ikeyama, Setsuro (unpublished dissertation available from ProQuest)
• The Aryabhatiya
• The Surya Siddhanta (PDF without commentary-Devanagari) (UTF - 8 HTML transliteration)
• The Lilavati of Bhaskara II.
• Varahamihira's Yogayatra

All of the above texts are avaiable in digitized form at Michio Yano's website

Texts on or in Sanskrit used by Students in the Department

• William Dwight Whitney
  • Sanskrit Grammar: Including both the Classical Language and the Older Dialects (Amazon) (PDF from the Million Books Project)
  • The Roots, Verb-Forms and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language: (A Supplement to His Sanskrit Grammar) (Amazon) (books.google.com)
• Bucknell
  • Sanskrit Manual: A Quick-Reference Guide to the Phonology and Grammar of Classical Sanskrit (Amazon)
• Böhtlingk, Otto, 1815-1904
  • Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung VOL 1-4 (1879-84) (PDF from the Million Books Project)
  • Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung VOL 5-7 (PDF from the Million Books Project)
  • Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung (suppl) (PDF from the Million Books Project)
• Charles Lanman
  • A Sanskrit reader : with vocabulary and notes (1912) (PDF from the Million Books Project) (Amazon)
• Monier-Williams
  • A Practical Grammar of the Sanskrit language : Arranged with Reference to the Classical Languages of Europe, for the use of English students (PDF from the Million Books Project)
  • A Sanskrit-English dictionary, Etymologically and Philologically arranged (Amazon) (PDF from the Million Books Project)
• Kalidasa
  • Sakuntala, a Sanskrit drama, in seven acts. The Deva-Nagari recension of the text, ed. with literal English translations of all the metrical passages, schemes of the metres and notes, critical and explanatory (1876) (PDF from the Million Books Project)
• Westergaard, N. L. (Niels Ludvig), 1815-1878
  • Radices linguae Sanscritae ad decreta grammaticorum definivit atque copia exemplorum exquisitiorum illustravit (1841) (PDF from the Million Books Project)
• Dowson, John, 1820-1881
  • A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature (1888) (Amazon) (PDF from the Million Books Project)
    
• MacDonnell
  • A Sanskrit Grammar for Students (Amazon) (PDF from the Million Books Project)
  • Vedic Grammar for Students (South Asia Books)
  • Vedic Reader for Students (South Asia Books)
• Kale
  • A Higher Sanskrit Grammar (South Asia Books) (PDF from the Million Books Project)
• The Laghu Siddhanta Kaumudi
  • (with English translation)(South Asia Books)
  • Sanskrit with Sanskrit commentary (from the Digital Library of India)
• Dictionary of Sanskrit Grammar (from the Digital Library of India)
• Astadhyayi of Panini
  • Rama Nath Sharma's edition and translation, along with the Kashika commentary (Amazon)
  • Vasu's edition and translation (Amazon)
  • a digitized version of Pantanjali's Mahabhasya
• Bhagavad Gita
  • Winthrop Sargeant's edition and translation (Amazon)
• Scholastic Sanskrit - A new treatment in English of the style of Sanskrit commentators (Amazon)
• Peter Scharf's Ramopakhyana (The Story of Rama in the Mahabharata) (Amazon)
• Teach Yourself Sanskrit Complete Course (Always reccommended by Dr. Pingree for self-study) (Amazon)
• The Mahabharata (the Pune Edition is available from Saujanya Books)
• The Ramayana

Useful Links for the Study of Sanskrit

• Sanskrit Documents List
  • List of Scanned Sanskrit Documents at the Sanskrit Documents List.
• MWSDD - A downloadable and searchable version of Monier-Williams dictionary. Searches can be by exact match, initial, medial or final letters.
  • Users of Vista need this fix for the dictionary to work properly
• The Sanskrit Library Seems to be undergoing renovations at the moment.
• Digital Library of India .
  • Bangalore
  • Hyderabad
  • Noida
• GRETIL - Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages
• Panini Software
• Million Books Project
  • Contains scanned versions of many useful Sanskrit texts
• Geeta Supersite
  • Contains the Gita and many Sanskrit commentaries in PDF format
• Schlegel's Gita with Latin Translation (books.google.com)
• Itranslator (For converting Sanskrit texts in the ASCII ITRANS encoding into Unicode fonts)
• Bookstores
  • Located in India
    • Nataraj Books
    • Saujanya Books
    • New Age Books (India)
    • Motilal Banarasidass
    • Biblia Imex (they have a Sanskrit commentary on the Surya Siddhanta available)
  • Located in the US
    • South Asia Books
    • Schoenhof's
  • List of booksellers from Columbia University