The practical way to become familiar with the basics of Sanskrit is through practice: all the theory that is provided is simply so that the practice may be intelligent, and lead to understanding. With this aim in mind, at the end of each lesson a few simple exercises are presented. a...
The quotation from Scharfe in the previous subsection epitomises such a view: ‘the textbook [i.e. the manuscript] may be in the hands of the teacher, but the student is introduced to it, if at all, only after he has mastered the practice’. However, from the same literature it is ...