Sanskrit words ending in cerebral N

[Harry Spier]

Dear list members,

(Harvard-Kyoto convention used in the following)

Whitney in his Grammar (section 143. first paragraph) says "the [palatal] N
is allowed [as a permitted final] but is quite rare;"

MacDonell in both his Sanskrit Grammar for Students and his Vedic Grammar
for Students (section 27. both books) says that palatal N does not occur as
a permitted final.


Do any of the list members know if there are actually any Sanskrit words
ending in palatal N in pausa and if so what they are?  And if so why
MacDonell who published after Whitney would explicitly exclude them?

As an aside Prof. Deshpande in saMskRtasubodhinI page 109 in describing
external sandhi gives a rule for final N ("Final G, N, and n are doubled
after  a short vowel, and before any vowel.")

Yours,

Harry

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