Thank you Elliot, I've been going through transcriptions of a group of manuscripts from the Ragunath Temple, Jammu and in the eloquent words of Charles DiSimone who replied offlist in describing some Nepalese manuscripts, its a mishmash.
Some don't have have avagraha. Some have one or two in a whole manuscript and some use avagraha. Where manuscripts use avagraha to elide a afte e or o they also use avagraha to indicate ā+a . But in some cases I'm finding avagraha in places strange places. I've checked these following cases against the actual manuscripts which are in archive.org. For example: dakṣiṇāmūrtisaṁhitā ऋषिऽस्याद्दक्षिणामूर्तिर्गायत्रीछंद उच्यते ।। 4 ।। folio 21aअंतेजीवऽशिवस्यातुविद्या वरुण पूजिता ।। 43 ।। folio 55b kaulārcanadīpikā लोकोयंऽजुगुप्सिति folio 43bनिःसंग एव मोक्षऽस्याद्दोषाःसर्वेच संगजाः । folio 57a mudrāprakāśaḥ शिखयागालिनींमुद्रामऽर्धस्यो परिचालयेत् । folio 11aअनामामध्यमेअंगुष्टेन स्पृशेदित्यऽपानमुद्रा ।। 2 ।। folio 18aस्यादऽपानहुतौमुद्रा ।। 2 ।। folio 21aमध्यापृष्टेंऽगुष्टौमध्याक्रोडेस्थितौकाम कामइतिकाममुद्रेत्यर्थः ।। 19 ।। folio 30a Any explanation for the use of avagraha in these cases would be appreciated. If anyone wants to look at the actual manuscript I can provide the images for these cases. Harry Spier On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 10:18 AM Elliot Stern <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Harry, > > The use of avagraha to mark elision of an initial short a is not usual in > Sanskrit mss. MacDonell, for example, says in his Sanskrit Grammar for > Students (page 5): > > The elision of अ a at the beginning of a word is marked in > > European editions with the sign ऽ called Avaagraha ('separation'); e.g. > तेऽपि te 'pi for ते अपि te pi. > > Best wishes, > > Elliot > > On May 5, 2023, at 9:14 PM, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Dear list members, > I'm looking at the manuscript ajñānadhvāntadīpikā by somanāthaḥ > As far as I can tell there are no avagrahas in the manuscript. > For example if you look at the end of line 5 on the attached 1st folio > > The end of verse 5 is संन्यासाःसप्रयोगाश्चवक्ष्यन्तेत्रसमासतः ५ Anirban Dash > (and several others pointed out that this should be > > संन्यासाःसप्रयोगाश्चवक्ष्यन्तेऽत्रसमासतः ५ > > As far as I can see there are no avagrahas anywhere in the manuscript. > Is this normal or unusual for Kashmiri manuscripts not to use avagraha. > > The manuscript can be downloaded from egangotri on archive.org from > https://archive.org/details/AgyanDhvantaDeepikaShriSomnath4966Alm22Shlf4DevanagariTantra_201708 > > Thanks, > Harry Spier > <VERSE 5.pdf> > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > > Elliot M. Stern > 552 South 48th Street > Philadelphia, PA 19143-2029 > [email protected] > 267-240-8418 > > > >
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