Any suggestions!

Stephen Hodge s.hodge at PADMACHOLING.FREESERVE.CO.UK
Thu Jan 24 00:54:44 UTC 2002


Dear Madhav,

> This one instance tells me that the copyist can calligraphically
> distinguish between -tdha- and -ddha-, though in 99.99% of the cases, he
> uses -tdha-.  With this data, what might one conclude?  Best,
I have encountered the same -tdha etc type of orthography (or heterography,
perhaps) in Tibetan transcriptions of Sanskrit words that date from the
early medieval period, so this is not a new phenomenon.

Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge





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