Kyoto-Harvard transliteration

[Mark Allon]

Dear all,

The "Waxing Syllable Principle (WSP)" is extensively applied in Buddhist canonical prose texts and in some Jaina prose texts as well. See Study 2 in my Style and Function: A Study of the Dominant Stylistic Features of the Prose Portions of Pali Canonical Sutta Texts and their Mnemonic Function. Tokyo: International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1997. Oskar von Hinüber also wrote about this (mentioned in my study).

Regards
Mark
 
 
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University of Sydney
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Michael Witzel
>Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 9:01 AM
>To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: Kyoto-Harvard transliteration
>
>Sanjay (below) seems to refer to the frequent Vedic compound
>zUdrArya- (Unicode: śūdrārya-), where to many people's surprise,
>the grammarians mentioned below included, the Shudras come first.
>
>Well, for a good  reason  -- again that of prosody or syllable count.
>
>The Rgveda mostly has the clear, metrically indicated, trisyllabic
>reading  [aariya]  (āriya) for (KH) Arya (aarya, ārya-), as noted
>already by Grassmann 1873, RV Dictionary column 185-6.
>
>In short, Panini-Behaghel's  (2+1+1, 2+2+2) rule is strictly
>followed, against all contemporary social sensitivities:
>
>zUdra+Ariya (śūdra+āriya):  2 syll + 3 syllables, or :  2+1, 2+1+1
>morae.
>
>In fact, this has been noted and explained long ago by Hans Oertel :
>"zUdrArya", I think in ZDMG 1936;  see now H.Oertel, Kleine
>Schriften. Heinrich Hettrich,  Thomas Oberlies (eds.). Stuttgart :
>Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994.
>
>
>A nice weekend!
>
>Michael
>
>
>On Aug 3, 2008, at 5:00 PM, Sanjay Kumar wrote:
>
>> According to Kaatyaayana and Patanjali as well later Sanskrit
>> grammarians such as Jayaaditya and KaiyaTa, the order of appearance
>> of the four varnas in copulative compound is not indicative of "the
>> notion worthy of most respect." It rather indicates the sequence as
>> mentioned in the Vedas (see KaiyaTa's commentary on the Vaartika
>> "varnaanaam aanupuurvyeNa" {Panini 2.2.34}). At least the (early)
>> grammatical tradition does not presuppose hierarchy in this context.
>>
>> Sanjay
>>
>> McGill University
>>
>>
>
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