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Saṃdhi Rules:
उत्तर | छदम् = उत्तरच्छदम्

About the Little Red Book

This is a digital version of the Little Red Book by McComas Taylor from Australian National University

The Sanskrit Alphabet

Sanskrit Alphabet (vii-viii)
Tricky Combinations (ix)
Generic Endings for Nominals (x)
Vowel strength (xi)

Nouns

gaja - a - masculine (1)
phala - a – neuter (2)
senā - ā – feminine (3)
muni - i - masculine (4)
śuci - i – neuter (5)
śruti - i – feminine (6)
guru - u – masculine (7)
mṛdu - u – neuter (8)
dhenu - u – feminine (9)
dhī - ī – feminine, monosyllabic (10)
nadī - ī – feminine (11)
strī - ī – feminine (irregular) (12)
bhū - ū – feminine, monosyllabic (13)
vadhū - ū – feminine (14)
rājan - an – masculine (15)
ātman - an – masculine (16)
nāman - an – neuter (17)
kartṛ - ṛ – masculine (18)
pitṛ - ṛ – masculine (19)
svasṛ - ṛ – feminine (20)
mātṛ - ṛ – feminine (21)
bhagavat - ant/vant/mant – masculine (22)
bhagavat - ant/vant/mant – neuter (23)
sumanas - as – masc/fem (24)
manas - as – neuter (25)
hastin - in – masculine (26)
dhanin - in – neuter (27)
marut - consonant endings – masc (28)
vāc - consonant endings – fem (29)

Pronoun

mad/asmad - I/we (30)
tvad/yuṣmad - you (31)
tad-he–masculine(also yaḥ, kaḥ) (32)
tad - it – neuter (also yat, kim) (33)
tad - she – feminine (also yā, kā) (34)
ayam - this – masculine (35)
ayam - this – neuter (36)
ayam - this – feminine (37)
asau - that – masculine (38)
asau - that – neuter (39)
asau - that – feminine (40)

Present active participles

nayant - at/ant – masc (41)
nayant - at/ant – neuter (42)

Verbs

Class 1, 4, 6 & 10 Active endings (nī) (43)
Class 1, 4, 6 & 10 Middle endings (nī) (44)
Class 2 (root class) Active endings (dviṣ) (45)
Class 2 (root class) Middle endings (dviṣ) (46)
Class 2 (root class) Active endings (as) (47)
Class 2 (root class) Active endings (han) (48)
Class 3 (reduplicated class) active (hu) (49)
Class 3 (reduplicated class) middle ending (hu) (50)
Class 5 (nu class) active endings (su) (51)
Class 5 (nu class) middle endings (su) (52)
Class 7 (nasal infix class) active ending (rudh) (53)
Class 7 (nasal infix class) middle endings (rudh) (54)
Class 8 (u class) active endings (kṛ) (55)
Class 8 (u class) middle endings (kṛ) (56)
Class 9 (nā class) active endings (krī) (57)
Class 9 (nā class) middle endings (krī) (58)

Perfect paradigms

Active endings (59)
Middle endings (60)

Sandhi rules

Vowels (a space indicates a word break) (61)
Consonants (a hyphen indicates a join) (62)
Final letter (63)
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