Leidecker Kurt Friedrich. Sanskrit: Essentials of Grammar and Language

Adyar Library and Research Centre, 1976. — 150 p.Sanskrit: essentials of grammar and language by Dr. Kurt F. Leidecker, first published in 1936. Second edition brought by the Adyar Library and Research center, with an introduction by Dr. K. Kunjunni Raja.
English and the aryan heritage; Relation of English and Sanskrit.
Fundamentals of Written and Spoken Sanskrit; the pronunciation; Sanskrit Alphabet; Devanagari.
Words and their elements; Numbers.
First approach to Sanskrit grammar; Sandhi.
Roots.
Verb Stems.
Noun stems.
Adjective Stems, participles.
Conjugation, Secondary conjugation, nouns in conjugation.
Declension, pronouns.
Numerals, prepositions, adverbs, interjections, conjunctions & expletives, stems of secondary formation, comparison.
Compounds; the function of compounds; Texts and translations; Selections from Gita & an Upanishad.