Pronunciation of l before k
Srini Pichumani
srini_pichumani at MENTORG.COM
Thu Jul 6 20:04:13 UTC 2000
Madhav Deshpande wrote:
> The contextual (allophonic) pronunciations of Sanskrit sounds are not
> studied by Sanskrit grammarians and phoneticians, except perhaps in the
> context of what is called faults of pronunciation (uccaara.nado.sa), cf.
> chapters in texts like the .Rk-Praatizaakhya and Mahaabhaa.sya.
Does the usual pronunciation of braahma.na (as braamha.na or just braamma.na)
fall into this category of uccaara.nado.sa ? Is there early notice of this ?
-Srini.
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