[INDOLOGY] Anusvara plus nasal

[jacob at fabularasa.dk]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my query both on- and off-list. Your 
observations and suggestions have been most helpful.

Best wishes,
Jacob

Hartmut Buescher skrev den 2014-06-10 12:29:
> Dear Jacob,
> 
> likewise familiar with this orthographical phenomenon in Sanskrit Mss,
> my guess is that,
> although the scribes were necessarily influenced by the vernaculars,
>  and probably the more the less educated they were
> – the phenomenon as such being long since known (as censurable),
> as Stefan Baums and others perceptively pointed out – ,
> the fact that its occurrence remains sporadically and rather
> associated with
>  specific scribes/Mss (say, rather than ever gaining broader general
> acceptance
> and application) would nevertheless in principle support Dominik’s
> point
> (given he may have exactly implied the scribes in their social
> context),
>  when he characterized this (in Skt. texts impertinent) orthographic
> feature
> as “scribal carelessness”.
> 
> Fortsat god arbejdlyst,
> 
> Hartmut Buescher
> 
>  2014-06-09 17:56 GMT+02:00 <jacob at fabularasa.dk>:
> 
>> Dear list,
>> 
>> I wonder if anyone could explain the occurence in some Sanskrit
>> manuscripts (possibly influenced by vernacularisms) of adding an
>> anusvara before a nasal. I have attached three examples containing
>> the following readings:
>> 
>> Ex. 1: तंन् (तंम् before sandhi)
>> Ex. 2: महाश्मशांने
>> Ex. 3: दांन
>> 
>> Any suggestions or clarifications would be greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Jacob
>> 
>> Jacob Schmidt-Madsen
>> Assistant Teacher
>> Department of Indology
>> University of Copenhagen
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