Title: How could a college (UT) have used this book?
Review: This book failed me. The author writes in a style that, by today's casual standards, seems more suited to a highbrow English college (like the Cambridge of yesteryear). The font is terrifically small, the explanations didactic. I was told that the author later committed suicide, which I find plausible. Out of the 13 or so people in the Sanskrit class which used this text, only three failed to drop out; those three were already "linguistically accomplished" and could make some sense of it. In the beginning of the class, I handed everyone a sheet with the alphabet on it (not from the book); later, people said that without that favor, they'd have dropped out a lot sooner. I think Egenes or Bucknell's (sp?) book is probably a safer bet. I have Egenes' and I've gotten alot out of it. Or you can join the Sanskrit for Social Change movement (no kidding). Burn this book.
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