Macdonell的《学生梵语语法》在其生前共出版过三个版本：初版于1901年，增订再版于1911年，修订三版于1927年。此书已成为英语世界经典的梵语入门教材。
商务印书馆于2011年出版了该书的中译本，由张力生翻译，老一辈梵语专家韩廷杰和巫白慧校订。汉译本将梵文单词、例句的相应英文，都翻译成了中文，其实直接以英文来理解梵文单词、例句的语法结构反而更容易，故影印出版牛津大学出版社1927年版。

PREFACF TO THIRD EDITION
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
INTRODUCTION: BRIEF HISTORY OF SANSKRIT GRAMMAR
TABLE OF THE DEVANAGARI LETTERS
CHAPTER I: The ALPHABET
Relation of Sanskrit to Vedic and to the Indian Vernaculars-
Origin of Indian Writing – Arrangement of the Letters– The
Vowels–The Consonants-The Numerical Figures-Pronunciation
CHAPTER II: ЕUPHONIC COMBINATION
External Sandhi: Combination of Vowels and of Consonants-
Internal Sandhi : Combination of Vowels and of Consonants
CHAPTER III: DECLENSION
Nouns: Consonant sterns-unchangeable-changeable: with Two
Stems; with Three Stems–Vowel stems–Degrees of Comparison–
Numerals: Cardinals-Ordinals--Numeral Adverbs-Pronouns:Per-
sonal–Demonstrative–Interrogative–Relative–Reflexive–Posses-
sive-Compound-Quantitative-Indefinite-Pronominal Adjectives
CHAPTER IV: CONJUGATION
Introductory–The Present System–First Conjugation–Second
Conjugation –The Augment–Reduplication –Terminations–Para-
digms– Irregularities – The Perfect – The Aorist: First Aorist–
Sccond Aorist-Benedictive–Future–Conditional–Passive-Par-
ticiples–Gerund–Infinitive–Derivative Verbs : Causative–Desi-
derative–Intensive–Denominative
CHAPTER V: INDECLINABLE WORDS
Prepositions – Prepositional Adverbs – Prepositional Substan-
tives-PrepositionalGerunds-Conjunctive and Adverbial Particles-
Interjections
CHAPTER VI: NOMINAL STEM FORMATION AND
COMPOUNDS
Primary Suffixes–Secondary Suffixes– Gender –Verbal Com-
pounds–Nominal Compounds : Co-ordinatives – Determinatives:
Dependent and Descriptive–Possessives
CHAPTER VII: SYNTAX
of Words–The Article–Number–Con-
Introductory–Order
cord– Pronouns – Use of the Cases – Locative and Genitive
Absolute–Participles –Infinitive– Use of the Tenses–Use of the
Moods-Conditional
APPENDIX I: LIST OF VERBS
APPENDIX II: METRE IN CLASSICAL SANSKRIT
APPENDIX III: CHIEF PECULIARITIES OF VEDIC GRAMMAR 236-244
SANSKRIT INDEX
GENERAL INDEX