Dear Harry Spier, I'm not sure when ba became a dedicated akṣara within the Devanāgarī script, but what you describe has been the norm for Brahmic script manuscript transmissions over history.
All my best, Charles Dr. Charles DiSimone Department of Languages and Cultures Ghent University On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 2:57 PM Harry Spier via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear list members, > I'm looking at a manuscript from the Ragunath Temple Sanskrit Manuscript > Library, Jammu, j&K. The text is ajñānadvāntadīpikā by somanātha > The link to the pdf on archive.org is: > > https://archive.org/download/AgyanDhvantaDeepikaShriSomnath4966Alm22Shlf4DevanagariTantra/Agyan%20Dhvanta%20Deepika%20-%20Shri%20Somnath_4966_Alm_22_Shlf_4_Devanagari-%20Tantra.pdf > > Looking at the first few lines it looks to me like the scribe is using the > devanagari letter व for both व and ब. Is that common practice in > devanagari manuscripts from kashmir? > Thanks, > Harry Spier > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
_______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
