An Introduction to Panini - II - Paperback

by Vishakha S. Chitnis (Editor), Ruchira S. Dighe (Editor), P. B. Junnarkar (Author)

This series of four volumes explains the use of Panini's Sanskrit grammar to the present-day student in simple English with examples that are easily understood. This second volume explains Causals; roots of the Churadi class; conjugation of the roots of the Bhvadi, Divadi, Tudadi and Churadi class for the Present Tense; the Imperfect; the Imperative and the Potential; the Passive voice - Bhaav and Karman; declension of Pratipadic; 'ghi' bases - masculine and neuter; Pati and Sakhi; Pratipadic bases ending in short rhi; feminine bases ending in aap; nadi bases; feminine bases; declension of pronouns; Adjectives; Indeclinables;upasargas.

Author Biography

The late Prof. Prasannakumar B. Junnarkar was born in a family devoted to classical learning. Prasannakumar's formal university education was in Mathematics, in which he took his Master's degree from Elphinstone College, Bombay. He also obtained a degree in Law. In 1922 he joined the Dacca University, where he served till his retirement in 1948 as the Head of the Department of Commerce and later as the Dean of the Faculty of Commerce. Though he had been a student of mathematics and law and was for many years a teacher of commerce, Prof. Junnarkar's first love was always Sanskrit. He began the work of simplifying Paninian grammar while still at the Dacca University, but the bulk of the work was the product of 14 years' unaided labour continued despite ill health - in his quiet retirement at Navsari in Gujarat. He died at Baroda in 1975 at the age of 82.