Thank you Piotr, very clear. And thank you to Elaine Fisher and Matthew Kapstein who replied off list. Harry Spier
On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 4:52 PM Piotr Balcerowicz via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Harry, > > All printed editions reproduce the passage is as: *सागरों**ऽशुश्च*, e.g. > the Poona edition: > [image: image.png] > > *A**vagr**a**ha* is historically introduced later. *Anusvāra* is already > represented in the Aśokan Brāhmī script, which means it is an old concept, > and represented thereafter in various scripts, whereas *svagraha* is > introduced only much later to Indic scripts. Early manuscripts frequently > do not contain the *avagraha* sign at all. So, in historically earlier > period (when *avagraha* was no yet there) we would expect to read *सागरों* > *शुश्च*, in which the *anusvāra* would obviously be written over the > preceding *akṣara*. The insertion of the *avagraha* into this sequence of > *akṣara*s (*सागरों**ऽशुश्च*) should therefore not change much and the > *anusvāra* should remain in its (historically) original place (where it > would have been, before the inventions of *avagraha*). > > Regards, > > Piotr > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > http://balcerowicz.eu/ > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Harry Spier <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 09:16:36 -0400 > Subject: [INDOLOGY] Writing anusvara with avagraha in devanagari > Dear list members, > What is the correct way to write anusvara with avagraha. > For example in Mahābharata 03,003,024c > varuṇaḥ sāgaro 'ṁśuś ca jīmūto jīvano 'rihā > Should it be written as सागरोऽंशुश्च or सागरोंऽशुश्च > > > Thanks, > > Harry Spier > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Harry Spier <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 09:20:25 -0400 > Subject: [INDOLOGY] CORRECTION: Writing anusvara with avagraha in > devanagari > Dear list members, > I meant to write: > What is the correct way to write anusvara with avagraha in devanagari.. > For example in Mahābharata 03,003,024c varuṇaḥ sāgaro 'ṁśuś ca jīmūto > jīvano 'rihā > Should it be written as सागरोऽंशुश्च or सागरोंऽशुश् > > Thanks, > > Harry Spier > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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