Kyoto-Harvard transliteration

[Rosane Rocher]

I recall an early article by Richard Salomon titled "An ancient 
diplomatic dispute," or something to that effect, which studies the dire 
consequences of contravening to this Sanskrit (and Indo-European) "law." 
Sorry I can't give an exact reference at this time. I am up in the 
mountains, and my collection of offprints is in town. Rich is also out 
of station at the moment.

Rosane Rocher

Gérard Huet wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I was very interested to learn about Behaghel's law. I presume it is a 
> general statement about the Indo-European family of
> languages, which may be more or less verified for the various 
> languages. Concerning Sanskrit, thanks to Ashok for providing the
> reference, indeed justifying calling it this "Paa.nini-Behaghel" law. 
> It is intriguing whether this "law" is merely a standardized
> rhetorical device, or whether it is related to some information 
> theoretic notion such as Huffman coding 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding) since it is likely that 
> shorter words are more frequent than longer ones.
> Some relation with sandhi-splitting ease could also exist (specially 
> in light of Paa.nini 2.2.32 and 33).
>
> Of course the law concerns only copulative compounds (dvandva). The 
> problem arises when listing several authors of a paper.
> The usual rule (of Western academics) is that authors are given in 
> alphabetical order, only in case of balanced authorship.
> Otherwise the authors are put in decreasing order of their respective 
> contribution, and this is a fairer law than any syntactic
> one.
>
> Actually, vaarttikas recommend the fair law: first should be come the 
> notion worthy of most respect, like in maatapitarau.
> And of course braahma.nak.satriyavi.t"suudraa.h - brâhmans should 
> always go first!
>
> I hope you do not have problems with my transliteration scheme. I call 
> it VH encoding. Velthuis is of course the primary author.
> I merely restrict his code to lower case letters, using aa and not A 
> etc. It would be unfair to call this the HV encoding because
> of some obscure IE law ...
>
> Cheers
> GH
>
> Le 3 août 08 à 16:01, Ashok Aklujkar a écrit :
>
>> Dear Michael,
>>
>> Thanks for the clarification. Enjoyed your wit. Glad to note that 
>> honesty
>> continues to be important at my Alma Mater.
>>
>> In the spirit of your note and on the growing pattern illustrated by
>> "Newton-Bhaaskara," "Einstein-Bose" etc. (or their reversals), may I 
>> suggest
>> thaat Behaghel's law should be referred to as "Paa.nini-Behaghel's 
>> law"? See
>> Paa.nini 2.2.34 (alpaactaram). Even your "metrically shorter" is 
>> anticipated
>> in a Vaarttika to this rule (laghv-ak.sara.m puurvam).
>>
>> Sorry for not following Kyoto-Harvard in the above, although I have very
>> fond memories of both places.
>>
>> Best.
>>
>> ashok
>>
>