Thank you Madhav, What you say makes sense. I had thought it had something to do with the anusvara, but what you say makes more sense. Harry Spier
On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 11:47 PM Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Madhav Deshpande <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 8:45 PM > Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Fwd: CORRECTION: Writing anusvara with avagraha in > devanagari (Harry Spier) > To: Harry Spier <[email protected]> > > > Hello Harry, > > If you carefully look at the page from Belvalkar's edition of the BG, > he uses the Avagraha in वासुदेवोऽस्मि, but not in तेजोंशसम्भवम्. His logic > seems to be that there should be an Avagraha between separate Padas, but > not within a single compound. Gambhirananda does not seem to make this > distinction. > > Madhav > > Madhav M. Deshpande > Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics > University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA > Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies > Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India > > [Residence: Campbell, California, USA] > > > On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 8:22 PM Harry Spier <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Madhav, >> It appears that it's not just manuscripts that leave out avagraha but >> also modern printed editions. >> As Piotr Balcerowicz pointed out, Mahabarata critical edition 3,3,24 does >> use avagraha, but if you look at Bhagavad-gItA verse 10-41 in the >> Mahabharata critical edition which is Mahabharata 6,32,41 (page attached ) >> you will see that Belvakar did not use avagraha. And in Belvalkar's printed >> edition of the Bhagavad-gItA for that verse he did not put in avagraha. On >> the other hand, Sw. Gambhirananda in his edition (page also attached) did >> use avagraha. >> Harry Spier >> >> >>> > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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