Question about writing Sanskrit without breaks between words

[Richard Salomon]

Madhav,

If you want more: there are a few examples of word division in inscriptions
(mostly Prakrit) in my Indian Epigraphy, p. 67.

Rich

----- Original Message -----
From: "Madhav Deshpande" <mmdesh at UMICH.EDU>
To: <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: Question about writing Sanskrit without breaks between words


Thanks everyone for a wide range of responses.

Madhav Deshpande


-----Original Message-----
From: Indology on behalf of Richard MAHONEY
Sent: Sun 10/10/2004 5:35 PM
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Subject:      Re: Question about writing Sanskrit without breaks between
words

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 09:53:56AM -0400, Madhav Deshpande wrote:

[snip]

> So the question is whether the notion of writing a text without
> breaks in a continuous format is an importation from Greek or
> Aramaic ways, or, as is equally likely, simply a result of the
> notions of Sanskrit grammarians about Sandhis being a natural part
> of language.  Any suggestions?

One image close to hand -- Fol. 69v. of Parisiensis A, Paris National
Library MS. Gr. 1807, ninth century (Republic of Plato) -- may be of
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interest.

The image is at (1.3MB):

 http://homepages.comnet.co.nz/~r-mahoney/records/parisiensis-a.jpg


Jowett's text critical comments are at (550K):

 http://homepages.comnet.co.nz/~r-mahoney/records/parisiensis-a.pdf


Best regards,

 Richard Mahoney


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