Sanskrit words ending in cerebral N

[Gabriel]

Dear Harry,
                    This is Gabriel from The Sanskrit Web Site
(www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/3502/index.html). I do not know any words
ending in palatal "n" within a formal sentence at least. Perhaps there may be
some words (probably roots), but quite rare indeed. The rule given by Deshpande
is correct. For example: "san atra" (being here) is transformed into "sann
atra" and then the two words are to be joined together as follows: "sannatra".
                    Well, sorry about my English. Spanish is my native
language.
                    Stay in touch.

Gabriel

Harry Spier wrote:

> 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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