Ebook: Scholastic Sanskrit : a handbook for students

The book is organized around a verse from the Parāśarapurāna that names five characteristics of a commentary: the division of the text into individual words (padacchedah), paraphrases of the meanings of words (padārthoktiḥ), analysis of compounds (vigrahah), the syntactical structure of sentences (vākyayojanā), and responses to objections (ākṣepasamādhānam). The first four of these characteristics are discussed in part 1 of the book, written by Gary A. Tubb. Part 2, written by Emery R. Boose, deals with the fifth characteristic.