An Introduction to Sanskrit
by Madhusudhan Mishra

For centuries the students had been asked to study Grammar twelve years to be at home with the Sanskrit Language. The early European scholars had almost to undergo the same exedcise, but what theyu brought out for their pupils was somewhat differnt. In the beginnig, the terms of the hindu Grammarians were uncounthly fitted in Western grammatical scheme, which were later on gradually given up. Madhusudhan Mishra passed his B. A. (Hons.) Examination in SAnskrit in 1956 and M. A. Patna university. In both the examination he stood first class and was awarded three gold-medals. He jioned Goenka College, Sitamarhi, in 1959 as lecturer in Sanskrit , and later the Indogermanisches Seminar of the University of Frankfurt in 1965. He Joined the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan in 1973 as Assistant Director and became Deputy Director (Academic) In 1977. He wrote lessons for the correspondence Course of the Lower and Higher level through the medium of Hindi and English