avagraha in Malayalam Manuscript

[Kengo Harimoto]

Thanks for bringing back the topic.  I have finally located the sign  
best interpreted as avagraha in the manuscript(s) I used.  I think I  
can finally fulfill my promise...

Scans are available at:

http://homepage.mac.com/kengoharimoto/avagraha1.jpg
"pañcaparvvaṇo 'vidyādīn kleśān"

http://homepage.mac.com/kengoharimoto/avagraha2.jpg
"tuśabdo 'vadh" (this is the end of the line, and continues  
"āraṇārthaḥ".)

http://homepage.mac.com/kengoharimoto/avagraha3.jpg
"yogagrahṇe 'sati"

The second one is small and ambiguous, but the other two share a  
distinctive shape; the shape described by Asko Parpola in the post on  
September 2, 2007.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, these are anomalies.  It turns out  
that these fragments all come from a single folio (folio 4 of the  
manuscript of the Pātañjalayogaśāstravivaraṇa, perserved in the  
Oriental Manuscript Library, Trivandrum, L. 662).  I could not find  
any more (although I cannot claim that I have been thorough).

Now that I have scans of the Malayalam manuscripts I have used, I  
will try to submit them to Indoskript.

-- 
kengo harimoto, NGMCP

On Oct 2, 2007, at 12:59 , gruenendahl wrote:

> This may be a little late, and not really to the point:
> One Malayalam print of a Sanskrit text that actually notes avagrahas,
> I.C. Chacko's "Paniniya Pradyotam" (Ernakulam 1955), uses what is
> known as the florin symbol in typography. This suggests to me that  
> there
> was no Malayalam sign available.
>
> For specimina see:
>
> www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/temp.htm
>
> from where you can download
>
> temp2.zip
>
> which contains some TIFFs from Chacko's book, with avagrahas in
> 1332 (Panini 5,4.76) and
> 1375 (Panini 5,4.131).
>
> Regards
> Reinhold Grünendahl
>
>
>
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