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PrefaceList of Abbkeviations .CorrectionsCHAPTER I:CONTENTSPHONETIC INTKODUCTIONPAGESiii-viiixiKelation of Veclic to Sanskrit— Oral tradition andWriting— Sounds of the Vedic Language — Tiie Vowels-^Vowel Gradation —The Consonants— Ancient Pronunciation1-19CHAPTER II:EUPHONIC COMBINATIONExternal Sandhi : Combination of Vowels and of Consonants—InternalSandhi : Combination of Vowels and ofConsonants 20-47CHAPTER III:DECLENSIONNouns : Consonant Stems— unchangeable— changeable:with Two Stems; with Three Stems— Vowel Stems—Degrees of Comparison — Numerals : Cardinals ;Ordinals ;Numeral Derivatives—Pronouns: Personal— Demonstrative— Interrogative— Relative — Reflexive — Possessive —Compound — Derivative— Indefinite — Pronominal Adjectives47-117CHAPTER IV:CONJUGATIONIntroductory— The Present System— First Conjugation— Second Conjugation— The Augment—Reduplication-PerfectTerminations — Paradigms— Irregularities ^ The—The Pluperfect -The Aorist : First Aorist ;SecondAorist—Benedictive—The Future: Simple; Periphrasticxii