作者法光法师（Ven. K. L. Dhammajoti），马来西亚人，斯里兰卡科伦坡克拉尼亚大学佛学博士，现在克拉尼亚大学、香港大学和中国佛学院等多家大学任兼职教授。学兼大小乘，精通英、汉、马、巴利文、梵文，热心在学业上帮助中国留学僧，对华友好，曾多次访华。

《阅读梵文佛典：基本语法指南》是法光法师介绍梵文学习的经典之作，也是普通读者入门与研习梵文的佳品。全书由英文写成，但其中参考了诸多中文佛典和梵文经典佛典，篇章分布得当，内容由浅入深，每篇章还会配有相应试题练习。作者在书中对梵文经典的结构，梵文单词词性及各种常见的梵文表达方式进行了细致入微的分析。

Preface

Abbreviations

Lesson 1
1．1 The Sanskrit Alphabet
1．2 Three genders of nouns： masculine (m)， neutral (n)
and feminine (f)
1．3 Three numbers： singular (sg)， dual (du) and plural (pl)
1．4 Case (vibhakti)
1．5 Masculine nouns ending with -a
1．6 Adjectives
1．7 Omission of the verb “to be” in a sentence
1．8 Indeclinable particles ca， vā， api， na and the affix –vat

Lesson 2
2．1 The accusative case (acc)
2．2 The ablative case (abl)
2．3 Accusative and ablative case of m nouns ending in -a：
buddha
2．4 Neutral nouns ending in -a： phala
2．5 Sanskrit verbs
2．6 Verbal prefixes
2．7 Three grades of strengthening of vowels
2．8 Verbs of classes I， IV， VI， X
2．9 Particle iti
2．10 The emphatic particle eva

Lesson 3
3．1 The dative case
3．2 Genitive used in the dative sense
3．3 Expression of “have”
3．4 The vocative case
3．5 The declensions learned so far
3．6 Declension of f ā-ending noun： praj？ā
3．7 Suffixes -tā， -tva ， -tas
3．8 Class VI verbs
3．9 Class IV verbs
3．10 Class X verbs
3．11 Summary of differences between verbs of
class I， IV， VI and X
3．12 Personal pronouns： 1st person stem： mad，
2nd person stem： tvad

Lesson 4
4．1 Declension of m nouns ending in -u
4．2 Declension of n nouns ending in -u
4．3 Declension of pronoun sa？ (m) ‘he’/‘that’
and e？a？ (m) ‘this’
4．4 Declension of pronoun tat (n) ‘it’/‘that’
and etat ‘this’
4．5 The enclitic pronoun enam
4．6 The causative verbs
4．7 The denominatives
4．8 The instrumental case
4．9 Past Passive Participles (PPP)

Lesson 5
5．1 Declension of m nouns ending in -i ： agni
5．2 Declension of n nouns ending in -i ： vāri
5．3 Declension of f nouns ending in -i ： jāti
5．4 Declension of f nouns ending in -ī ： nadī
5．5 Declension of pronoun sā (f)
5．6 Declension of demonstratives： ayam (m)，
idam (n)， iyam (f)
5．7 Declension of interrogative pronou