m/anusvAra & s/visarga

[DEVARAKONDA VENKATA NARAYANA SARMA]

At 10:56 AM 11/5/97 +0000, you wrote:
>May I make an adjustment to Dominique Thillaud's statement of the
>distribution of Visarga and h in Sanskrit? It is a very simple
>complementary distribution: h before a voiced sound (i.e. vowel or a
>voiced consonants), visarga before a voiceless sound or silence (avasAne,
>i.e. at the end of a sentence or at any other point where the sandhi is
>broken). It is therefore quite possible to use the same character for both
>without ambiguity; but if you want a computer to transcribe it into
>Devanagari or standard romanization, you will have to tell the computer
>which consonants are voiced and which are voiceless.
>
>Dr Dermot Killingley
>Dept of Religious Studies
>University of Newcastle upon Tyne
>Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
>Phone 0191 222 6730    Fax 0191 222 5185
>
>

We have in mantrasAstra bijAkSarAs like hsauh......!

sarma.