A Sanskrit Reader

The results of comparative philology are now so generally incorporated into our modern classical grammars, lexicons, and text/books, that even a slight knowledge of Sanskrit, if it be accurate so far as it goes, is of great service to the classical teacher in making his instruction interesting and effective. As independent disciplines, moreover, Sanskrit and comparative philology, and the literatures and religions of India, are constantly gaining in importance.
The design of this work is twofold. In the first place, it is to serve as an introduction to these subjects for the students of our colleges and universities. What the beginner needs is an elementary work comprehending both text and vocabulary in a single volume. And accordingly the reader is meant to furnish ample material for about fifty weeks reading, in a course of three hours a week, and, with the text, the appropriate lexical apparatus.
This Reader is designed, in the second place, to render a knowledge of Sanskrit accessible to the classical teaches of high-schools, academies, and colleges. These teachers, if they pursue this study at all, usually do so without the aid of an instructor. And it is especially the requirements of unaided private study that the author has taken constant pains to meet.