Numbering Code	U-LET49 19616 LJ48	Year/Term	2022 ・ Year-round
Number of Credits	4	Course Type	lecture
Target Year		Target Student
Language	Japanese	Day/Period	Mon.4
Instructor name	YAMAGUCHI NARIKO (Part-time Lecturer)
Outline and Purpose of the Course	Sanskrit is a classical language of South Asia and can be traced back to about 1200 BCE. To learn Sanskrit leads you to studies of philosophies, literatures and religions in India such as Buddhism, Jainism, Hiduism and so forth. In addition, Sanskrit, which has a long history and maintainability in grammar and phonology, is a required language to explicate and comprehend Proto-Indo-European language and is also helpful for researchers and students of linguistics and Western philosophy.
Course Goals	- To learn the basic grammar of Classical Sanskrit. - To read texts written in plain Sanskrit by acquiring basic grammar and vocabulary.
Schedule and Contents	- Explanation of gammatical matters and reading practice are conducted in the same class. - The progress of the classwork might be changed depending on the comprehension of students. the 1st-3rd classes: Introduciton of Sanskrit, the phoneme, sandhi. the 4th-13th classes: Declension of nouns and adjectives.(the 4th-8th: Vocalic stems, the 9th-13th: Consonantal stems) the 14th-15th classes: Pronouns, Numerals, Compounds. the 16th-22nd classes: Conjugation (the 16th-18th: Thematic/ the first conjugation, the 19th-22nd: Athematic/ the second conjugation) the 23rd-29th classes: Future, Perfect, Passive, Causative, Aorist, Nonfinite verb.
Evaluation Methods and Policy	Comprehension of exercises and enthusiasm for understanding: 50 points. Term-end-examination: 50 points.
Course Requirements	None
Study outside of Class (preparation and review)	Preparation: Preparing answers to the exercises given as homework. Reading the text about the grammar you will learn the next time. (Instructions about the homework will be given during class according to the progress.) Review: Reviewing what you learned in the class (In particular, exercises that you could not answer correctly.)
Textbooks	Textbooks/References	実習サンスクリット文法：荻原雲来『実習梵語学』新訂版, 吹田 隆道（編著）, (春秋社, 2015年), ISBN:978-4393101728 Supplementary materials (prints) will be distributed as needed.
References, etc.	サンスクリット文法, 辻 直四郎, (岩波出版, 1998), ISBN:978-4000202220